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Yet from the point of view of any particular life or interest , the distinction between a creative force and a destructive force is real and all - important . To make it is not to deny the mechanical structure of nature , but only to ...
Yet from the point of view of any particular life or interest , the distinction between a creative force and a destructive force is real and all - important . To make it is not to deny the mechanical structure of nature , but only to ...
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One hardly feels St. Thomas here in all his force . He offers suggestion rather than proof ; apology - the weaker because of obvious effort to apolo- gize — rather than defense , for infinite goodness , justice , and power ; scoffers ...
One hardly feels St. Thomas here in all his force . He offers suggestion rather than proof ; apology - the weaker because of obvious effort to apolo- gize — rather than defense , for infinite goodness , justice , and power ; scoffers ...
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A steam - engine works by the natural expansive force of steam , exerting a pressure upon one part of a system of arrangements , which pressure , by the mechanical properties of the lever , is transferred from that to another part where ...
A steam - engine works by the natural expansive force of steam , exerting a pressure upon one part of a system of arrangements , which pressure , by the mechanical properties of the lever , is transferred from that to another part where ...
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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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