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Science at the Tower of Babel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

T. Swann Harding
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The eleventh chapter of Genesis significantly begins to the following effect: “And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.” In that one language there was power. That power induced the inhabitants of earth to start the Tower of Babel with the idea of storming the citadel of Heaven. Whereupon, we learn, God confounded their language that they might not understand one another's speech. That confusion of tongues destroyed their power.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , July 1938 , pp. 338 - 353
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1938

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