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If this judgment seems harsh when applied to those simple souls who have never known better , who have been brought up from the cradle with a horror of doubt , and taught that their eternal welfare depends on what they believe , then it ...
If this judgment seems harsh when applied to those simple souls who have never known better , who have been brought up from the cradle with a horror of doubt , and taught that their eternal welfare depends on what they believe , then it ...
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Some of these ways are better than others ; the reasons why they are better can be set forth . The person who understands what the better ways of thinking are and why they are better can , if he will , change his own personal ways until ...
Some of these ways are better than others ; the reasons why they are better can be set forth . The person who understands what the better ways of thinking are and why they are better can , if he will , change his own personal ways until ...
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For indeed who , think you , is a better man than he who holds reverent opinions concerning the gods , and is at all times free from fear of death , and has reasoned out the end ordained by nature ? He understands that the limit of good ...
For indeed who , think you , is a better man than he who holds reverent opinions concerning the gods , and is at all times free from fear of death , and has reasoned out the end ordained by nature ? He understands that the limit of good ...
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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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