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The more perfect and more eternal aspect of the universe is represented in our religions as having personal form . The universe is no longer a mere It to us , but a Thou , if we are religious ; and any relation that may be possible from ...
The more perfect and more eternal aspect of the universe is represented in our religions as having personal form . The universe is no longer a mere It to us , but a Thou , if we are religious ; and any relation that may be possible from ...
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Furthermore , the universe always was such as it is now , and always will be the same . For there is nothing into which it changes : for outside the universe there is nothing which could come into it and bring about the change .
Furthermore , the universe always was such as it is now , and always will be the same . For there is nothing into which it changes : for outside the universe there is nothing which could come into it and bring about the change .
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Man- kind could not admit an anarchical — a dual or a multiple - universe . The world was there , staring them in the face , with all its chaotic conditions , and society insisted on its unity in self - defense .
Man- kind could not admit an anarchical — a dual or a multiple - universe . The world was there , staring them in the face , with all its chaotic conditions , and society insisted on its unity in self - defense .
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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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