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 433
... matter in proportion to the absorptive power of the matter . The soul is an energy existing in matter proportionately to the dimensional quantity of the matter . The soul is a wine , greater or less in quantity according to the size of ...
... matter in proportion to the absorptive power of the matter . The soul is an energy existing in matter proportionately to the dimensional quantity of the matter . The soul is a wine , greater or less in quantity according to the size of ...
Page 434
... matter ; in fact , matter was only known as associated with form . If , then , God , by an instantaneous act , created matter and gave it form according to the dimensions of the matter , innocent ignorance might infer that there was ...
... matter ; in fact , matter was only known as associated with form . If , then , God , by an instantaneous act , created matter and gave it form according to the dimensions of the matter , innocent ignorance might infer that there was ...
Page 435
... matter not of logic but of revealed truth . At all events , this treatment of mind and matter brought him into trouble which few modern logicians would suspect . The human soul having become a person by contact with matter , and having ...
... matter not of logic but of revealed truth . At all events , this treatment of mind and matter brought him into trouble which few modern logicians would suspect . The human soul having become a person by contact with matter , and having ...
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