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By this testing and discussion , not only has practice been purified and made more beneficent , but the very conception of be- neficence has been made wider and wiser . Now here the great social heir- loom consists of two parts : the ...
By this testing and discussion , not only has practice been purified and made more beneficent , but the very conception of be- neficence has been made wider and wiser . Now here the great social heir- loom consists of two parts : the ...
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Now a scientific conception , instead of using , even with additions , traits of this kind , determines meaning on a different basis . The present definition of metal is about like this : Metal means any chemical element that enters ...
Now a scientific conception , instead of using , even with additions , traits of this kind , determines meaning on a different basis . The present definition of metal is about like this : Metal means any chemical element that enters ...
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A naturalistic conception of things is a great work of imagination - greater , I think , than any dramatic or moral my- thology : it is a conception fit to inspire great poetry , and in the end , perhaps , it ...
A naturalistic conception of things is a great work of imagination - greater , I think , than any dramatic or moral my- thology : it is a conception fit to inspire great poetry , and in the end , perhaps , it ...
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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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