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He went on to become president of the Juilliard School of Music from 1928 to 1937, and a member of the board of the Metropolitan Opera Association. A prolific writer, Erskine wrote (in addition to the works already mentioned) several ...
He went on to become president of the Juilliard School of Music from 1928 to 1937, and a member of the board of the Metropolitan Opera Association. A prolific writer, Erskine wrote (in addition to the works already mentioned) several ...
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What hurts society is not that it should lose its property , but that it should become a den of thieves ; for then it must cease to be society . This is why we ought not to do evil that good may come ; for at any rate this great evil ...
What hurts society is not that it should lose its property , but that it should become a den of thieves ; for then it must cease to be society . This is why we ought not to do evil that good may come ; for at any rate this great evil ...
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In this separation , " facts " become a dead weight of undigested , mechanical , largely verbal , so - called “ infor- mation , " while ideas become so remote from objects and acts of experience that they are empty .
In this separation , " facts " become a dead weight of undigested , mechanical , largely verbal , so - called “ infor- mation , " while ideas become so remote from objects and acts of experience that they are empty .
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 644 pages |
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