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That the Prophet preached certain doctrines , and predicted that spiritual comfort would be found in them , proves only his sympathy with human nature and his knowledge of it ; but it does not prove his super- human knowledge of ...
That the Prophet preached certain doctrines , and predicted that spiritual comfort would be found in them , proves only his sympathy with human nature and his knowledge of it ; but it does not prove his super- human knowledge of ...
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He lamented the lack of an accepted standard of the right and good in human action and the consequent want of certitude in moral and political matters . He knew but rejected the long tradition that Nature provides such a standard .
He lamented the lack of an accepted standard of the right and good in human action and the consequent want of certitude in moral and political matters . He knew but rejected the long tradition that Nature provides such a standard .
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truth is that there is hardly a single point of excellence belonging to human character which is not decidedly repugnant to the untutored feelings of human nature . If there be a virtue which more than any other we expect to find ...
truth is that there is hardly a single point of excellence belonging to human character which is not decidedly repugnant to the untutored feelings of human nature . If there be a virtue which more than any other we expect to find ...
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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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