Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... reason . Not sense and reason , but nonsense and unreason , prejudice and fancy , greed and haste , have led them to such results as were to be expected - to superstitions , persecutions , wars , famines , pestilence , hereditary ...
... reason . Not sense and reason , but nonsense and unreason , prejudice and fancy , greed and haste , have led them to such results as were to be expected - to superstitions , persecutions , wars , famines , pestilence , hereditary ...
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... reason trained to judge of them . I say , whatever equal rights men may or may not have , they have this right . Let every boy , every girl , have an equal and sound education . If I had my way , I would give the same education to the ...
... reason trained to judge of them . I say , whatever equal rights men may or may not have , they have this right . Let every boy , every girl , have an equal and sound education . If I had my way , I would give the same education to the ...
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... reason . In the mind of Socrates it had a deeper meaning , at which he only dimly guessed ; which was seen more clearly by Philo and the Alexandrian Jews ; which was revealed in all its fulness to the beloved Apostle St. John , till he ...
... reason . In the mind of Socrates it had a deeper meaning , at which he only dimly guessed ; which was seen more clearly by Philo and the Alexandrian Jews ; which was revealed in all its fulness to the beloved Apostle St. John , till he ...
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... reasons . The most important facts of geology do not require , to discover them , any knowledge of mathe- matics or of chemical analysis ; they may be studied in every bank , every grot , every quarry , every railway- cutting , by ...
... reasons . The most important facts of geology do not require , to discover them , any knowledge of mathe- matics or of chemical analysis ; they may be studied in every bank , every grot , every quarry , every railway- cutting , by ...
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... reason from what I know . I know that birds haunt the cathedral tower ; I know that birds die ; and therefore , let your story be as pretty as it may , my common sense bids me take the simplest explanation , and say — it died here ...
... reason from what I know . I know that birds haunt the cathedral tower ; I know that birds die ; and therefore , let your story be as pretty as it may , my common sense bids me take the simplest explanation , and say — it died here ...
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