Intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic:
Science, Religion, and The War of the Worlds

by Douglas E. Cowan

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5. Ibid.

6. Cornils. 38

7. Ibid.

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10. (1983: 115)

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14. Wells. 139

15. Ibid.

16. Wells. 149

17. Wells. 169

18. Wells. 69

19. Wells, 131

20. Wells. 132

21. Wells. 70

22. Ibid.

23. Wells. 71

24. Ibid.

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