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The great chain of non-being

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Plurality of Worlds: The Origins of the Extraterrestrial Life Debate from Democritus to Kant.

By Steven J. Dick. Pp.246. ISBN 0-521-24308-4. (Cambridge University Press: 1982.) £19, $34.50.

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