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But our history be trays a peculiar warfare between character and intellect , such as to the Greek , for example , would have been incomprehensible . The great Englishman , like the most famous Greeks , had intelligence as well as ...
But our history be trays a peculiar warfare between character and intellect , such as to the Greek , for example , would have been incomprehensible . The great Englishman , like the most famous Greeks , had intelligence as well as ...
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The basis culture must have in character , the English resolution to make reason and the will of God prevail , Arnold took for granted ; no man ever set a higher price on character - so far as character by itself will go .
The basis culture must have in character , the English resolution to make reason and the will of God prevail , Arnold took for granted ; no man ever set a higher price on character - so far as character by itself will go .
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excellent moral character of a man is alleged as ground for accepting his statements about things which he cannot possibly have known . A Mohammedan , for example , will tell us that the character of his Prophet was so noble and ...
excellent moral character of a man is alleged as ground for accepting his statements about things which he cannot possibly have known . A Mohammedan , for example , will tell us that the character of his Prophet was so noble and ...
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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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