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If this really be a moral universe ; if by my acts I be a factor of its destinies ; if to believe where I may doubt be itself a moral act analogous to voting for a side not yet sure to win , by what right shall they close in upon me and ...
If this really be a moral universe ; if by my acts I be a factor of its destinies ; if to believe where I may doubt be itself a moral act analogous to voting for a side not yet sure to win , by what right shall they close in upon me and ...
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Are there any occa- sions on which , assuming their worthiness , we should prefer new to old friends , just as we prefer young to aged horses ? The answer admits of no doubt whatever . For there should be no satiety in friendship ...
Are there any occa- sions on which , assuming their worthiness , we should prefer new to old friends , just as we prefer young to aged horses ? The answer admits of no doubt whatever . For there should be no satiety in friendship ...
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But he says , " There are doubts . " I mean to use the occasion , and celebrate the calendar day of our St. Michael de Montaigne , by counting and describing these doubts or nega- tions . I wish to ferret them out of their holes ...
But he says , " There are doubts . " I mean to use the occasion , and celebrate the calendar day of our St. Michael de Montaigne , by counting and describing these doubts or nega- tions . I wish to ferret them out of their holes ...
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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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