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But whereas the notable Greek seems typical of his race , the notable Englishman usually seems an exception to his own people , and is often best appreciated in other lands . What is more singular - in spite of the happy combination in ...
But whereas the notable Greek seems typical of his race , the notable Englishman usually seems an exception to his own people , and is often best appreciated in other lands . What is more singular - in spite of the happy combination in ...
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... of the individual cannot by itself resolve ; and living options never seem absurdities to him who has them to consider . ... enough - this command , I say , seems to me the queerest idol ever manufactured in the philosophic cave .
... of the individual cannot by itself resolve ; and living options never seem absurdities to him who has them to consider . ... enough - this command , I say , seems to me the queerest idol ever manufactured in the philosophic cave .
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Things seem to tend downwards , to justify despondency , to promote rogues , to defeat the just ; and , by knaves ... Although knaves win in every political struggle , although society seems to be deliv- ered over from the hands of one ...
Things seem to tend downwards , to justify despondency , to promote rogues , to defeat the just ; and , by knaves ... Although knaves win in every political struggle , although society seems to be deliv- ered over from the hands of one ...
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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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