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Our own thoughts are what we are most at home with , what we are least afraid of . To say then that the universe essentially is thought is to say that I myself , potentially at least , am all .
Our own thoughts are what we are most at home with , what we are least afraid of . To say then that the universe essentially is thought is to say that I myself , potentially at least , am all .
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Now we must suppose that the least part in the atom too bears the same relation to the whole ; for though in smallness it is obvious that it exceeds that which is seen by sensation , yet it has the same relations .
Now we must suppose that the least part in the atom too bears the same relation to the whole ; for though in smallness it is obvious that it exceeds that which is seen by sensation , yet it has the same relations .
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What if after death we should awake in a world to which the atomic philosophy might not in the least apply ? Observe that this suggestion is not in the least opposed to any of the arguments by which science might prove the atomic theory ...
What if after death we should awake in a world to which the atomic philosophy might not in the least apply ? Observe that this suggestion is not in the least opposed to any of the arguments by which science might prove the atomic theory ...
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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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