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Even the least religious of men must have felt with Walt Whitman , when loafing on the grass on some transparent sum- mer morning , that " swiftly arose and spread round him the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the ...
Even the least religious of men must have felt with Walt Whitman , when loafing on the grass on some transparent sum- mer morning , that " swiftly arose and spread round him the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the ...
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To explain a thing is to pass easily back to its antecedents ; to know it is easily to foresee its consequents . Custom , which lets us do both , is thus the source of whatever rationality the thing may gain in our thought .
To explain a thing is to pass easily back to its antecedents ; to know it is easily to foresee its consequents . Custom , which lets us do both , is thus the source of whatever rationality the thing may gain in our thought .
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and reflection , is that these objects that people the world all pass away , and that the place thereof knows them no more . Yet , when they vanish , nothingness does not succeed ; other things arise in their stead .
and reflection , is that these objects that people the world all pass away , and that the place thereof knows them no more . Yet , when they vanish , nothingness does not succeed ; other things arise in their stead .
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action activity affection appear become beginning believe better body Books bring called cause character Church conception consider course death definite desire direct doubt evidence evil existence experience expression fact faith Faust fear feeling follow force friendship give given hand happen hope human idea imagination important individual intellectual intelligence interest keep kind knowledge least less light live logical look material matter meaning method mind moral nature never object observation old age once particular pass person philosopher play pleasure poet possible practical present problem qualities question reason reflection relation remains result rule seems sense soul speak stand suggested suppose things Thomas thought tion true truth turn understanding universe virtue whole wish
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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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