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In Shakespeare the prizes of life go to such men as Bassanio , or Duke Orsino , or Florizel — men of good conduct and sound character , but of no particular intelligence . There might , indeed , appear to be one general exception to ...
In Shakespeare the prizes of life go to such men as Bassanio , or Duke Orsino , or Florizel — men of good conduct and sound character , but of no particular intelligence . There might , indeed , appear to be one general exception to ...
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We make a moral issue of an economic or social question , because it seems ignoble to admit it is simply a question for intelligence . Like the medicine man , we use oratory and invoke our hereditary divinities , when the patient needs ...
We make a moral issue of an economic or social question , because it seems ignoble to admit it is simply a question for intelligence . Like the medicine man , we use oratory and invoke our hereditary divinities , when the patient needs ...
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The faith that needs the fewest altars , the hypothesis that leaves least unexplained , survives ; and the intelligence that changes most fears into opportunity is most divine . We believe this beneficent operation of intelligence was ...
The faith that needs the fewest altars , the hypothesis that leaves least unexplained , survives ; and the intelligence that changes most fears into opportunity is most divine . We believe this beneficent operation of intelligence was ...
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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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