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Nothing could be more absurd than to hope for the definitive triumph of any philosophy which should refuse to legitimate , and to legitimate in an emphatic man- ner , the more powerful of our emotional and practical tendencies .
Nothing could be more absurd than to hope for the definitive triumph of any philosophy which should refuse to legitimate , and to legitimate in an emphatic man- ner , the more powerful of our emotional and practical tendencies .
Page 542
Beauty , convenience , grandeur of thought and quaint expression are as near to us as to any , and if the American artist will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done by him , considering the climate , the soil ...
Beauty , convenience , grandeur of thought and quaint expression are as near to us as to any , and if the American artist will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done by him , considering the climate , the soil ...
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But in this latter scene of time we cannot expect such mummies unto our memories , when ambition may fear the prophecy of Elias , and Charles V can never hope to live within two Methuselahs of Hector .
But in this latter scene of time we cannot expect such mummies unto our memories , when ambition may fear the prophecy of Elias , and Charles V can never hope to live within two Methuselahs of Hector .
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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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