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DESCARTES, it will be remembered, resolved to seek happiness by limiting his desires rather than by attempting to satisfy them, thus setting himself against the grain of common human endeavour. In these times, thanks to science, invention and advertising, our needs have multiplied like the seed of Abraham, and although some of them appear superfluous, or even harmful, many can be ethically justified on the score of self-preservation or self-development.
Those Raw Materials
An Introduction to the Study of Raw Materials. By C. A. Ward. Pp. 392. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1941.) 15s. net.
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TRIPP, E. Those Raw Materials. Nature 149, 178–179 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149178a0
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