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Suppose that in looking at the world and seeing how full it is of misery , of old age , of wickedness and pain , and how unsafe is his own future , he yields to the pessimistic conclusion , cultivates disgust and dread , ceases striving ...
Suppose that in looking at the world and seeing how full it is of misery , of old age , of wickedness and pain , and how unsafe is his own future , he yields to the pessimistic conclusion , cultivates disgust and dread , ceases striving ...
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Moreover , we must not either suppose that every size exists among the atoms , in order that the evidence of phenomena may not contradict us , but we must suppose that there are some variations of size . For if this be the case , we can ...
Moreover , we must not either suppose that every size exists among the atoms , in order that the evidence of phenomena may not contradict us , but we must suppose that there are some variations of size . For if this be the case , we can ...
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Of all errors one of the most serious is to suppose that the soul descends by generation . " Having life and action of its own , it subsists without the body ; . . . it must therefore be produced directly , and since it is not a ...
Of all errors one of the most serious is to suppose that the soul descends by generation . " Having life and action of its own , it subsists without the body ; . . . it must therefore be produced directly , and since it is not a ...
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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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