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St. Thomas ' architecture , like any other work of art , is best studied by itself as though he created it outright ; otherwise a tourist would never get beyond its threshold . Beginning with the foundation which is God and God's active ...
St. Thomas ' architecture , like any other work of art , is best studied by itself as though he created it outright ; otherwise a tourist would never get beyond its threshold . Beginning with the foundation which is God and God's active ...
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Thomas gave it the lightest form possible , and there fixed it . Then came his great tour de force , the vaulting of his broad nave ; and , if ignorance is allowed an opinion , even a lost soul may admire the grand simplicity of Thomas ...
Thomas gave it the lightest form possible , and there fixed it . Then came his great tour de force , the vaulting of his broad nave ; and , if ignorance is allowed an opinion , even a lost soul may admire the grand simplicity of Thomas ...
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a calmness ; but Thomas Aquinas was not so happily placed , between the Church and the schools . Humanity had a form common to itself , which made it what it was . By some means this form was associated with matter ; in fact , matter ...
a calmness ; but Thomas Aquinas was not so happily placed , between the Church and the schools . Humanity had a form common to itself , which made it what it was . By some means this form was associated with matter ; in fact , matter ...
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Contents
JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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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 | 580 pages |
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