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Are we to doubt the word of a man so great and so good ? Can we suppose that this magnificent genius , this splendid moral hero , has lied to us about the most solemn and sacred matters ? The testimony of Mohammed is clear , that there ...
Are we to doubt the word of a man so great and so good ? Can we suppose that this magnificent genius , this splendid moral hero , has lied to us about the most solemn and sacred matters ? The testimony of Mohammed is clear , that there ...
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If , for example , I am unable to doubt that I now exist before you , that two is less than three , or that if all men are mortal then I am mortal too , it is because these things illumine my intellect irresistibly .
If , for example , I am unable to doubt that I now exist before you , that two is less than three , or that if all men are mortal then I am mortal too , it is because these things illumine my intellect irresistibly .
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If this really be a moral universe ; if by my acts I be a factor of its destinies ; if to believe where I may doubt be itself a moral act analogous to voting for a side not yet sure to win , by what right shall they close in upon me and ...
If this really be a moral universe ; if by my acts I be a factor of its destinies ; if to believe where I may doubt be itself a moral act analogous to voting for a side not yet sure to win , by what right shall they close in upon me 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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