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 73
... hope for the definitive triumph of any philosophy which should refuse to legitimate , and to legitimate in an ... hope , which says the nature of things is radically alien to human nature , can never succeed , one cannot in advance say ...
... hope for the definitive triumph of any philosophy which should refuse to legitimate , and to legitimate in an ... hope , which says the nature of things is radically alien to human nature , can never succeed , one cannot in advance say ...
Page 542
... hope and love the precise thing to be done by him , considering the climate , the soil , the length of the day , the wants of the people , the habit and form of the government , he will create a house in which all these will find ...
... hope and love the precise thing to be done by him , considering the climate , the soil , the length of the day , the wants of the people , the habit and form of the government , he will create a house in which all these will find ...
Page 576
... hope to live within two Methuselahs of Hector . And , therefore , restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories unto present considerations seems a vanity almost out of date and super- annuated piece of folly . We cannot hope ...
... hope to live within two Methuselahs of Hector . And , therefore , restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories unto present considerations seems a vanity almost out of date and super- annuated piece of folly . We cannot hope ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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