Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essaysRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopædia 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 375
... force is real and all - important . To make it is not to deny the mechanical structure of nature , but only to show ... forces which respectively gathered and disrupted the elements , so as to carry on between them the Penelope's labor ...
... force is real and all - important . To make it is not to deny the mechanical structure of nature , but only to show ... forces which respectively gathered and disrupted the elements , so as to carry on between them the Penelope's labor ...
Page 440
... 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 might add that he invented a new proof ab ...
... 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 might add that he invented a new proof ab ...
Page 479
... forces previously dormant are called into action and produce the desired effect . Even the volition which designs , the intelligence which contrives , and the muscular force which executes these movements are themselves powers of nature ...
... forces previously dormant are called into action and produce the desired effect . Even the volition which designs , the intelligence which contrives , and the muscular force which executes these movements are themselves powers of nature ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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