Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essaysRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 - 644 pages Complements Great Books of the Western World; includes only short works and excerpts from longer works. |
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Page 218
... atoms interlaced around them . For on the one hand the nature of the void which separates each atom by itself brings this about , as it is not able to afford resistance , and on the other hand the hardness which belongs to the atoms ...
... atoms interlaced around them . For on the one hand the nature of the void which separates each atom by itself brings this about , as it is not able to afford resistance , and on the other hand the hardness which belongs to the atoms ...
Page 219
... atoms is uniform , and besides nothing or very few things hinder their emission by collisions , whereas a body composed of many or infinite atoms is at once hindered by collisions . Besides this , nothing contradicts the belief that ...
... atoms is uniform , and besides nothing or very few things hinder their emission by collisions , whereas a body composed of many or infinite atoms is at once hindered by collisions . Besides this , nothing contradicts the belief that ...
Page 378
... atoms ; nay , time is itself an eventum created by the motion of atoms in the void ; but the triumph of time is absolute over persons , and nations , and worlds . " In treating of the soul and of immortality Lucretius is an imperfect ...
... atoms ; nay , time is itself an eventum created by the motion of atoms in the void ; but the triumph of time is absolute over persons , and nations , and worlds . " In treating of the soul and of immortality Lucretius is an imperfect ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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