Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essaysRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 - 644 pages Complements Great Books of the Western World; includes only short works and excerpts from longer works. |
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Page 433
... matter in proportion to the absorptive power of the matter . The soul is an energy existing in matter proportionately to the dimensional quantity of the matter . The soul is a wine , greater or less in quantity according to the size of ...
... matter in proportion to the absorptive power of the matter . The soul is an energy existing in matter proportionately to the dimensional quantity of the matter . The soul is a wine , greater or less in quantity according to the size of ...
Page 434
... matter ; in fact , matter was only known as associated with form . If , then , God , by an instantaneous act , created matter and gave it form according to the dimensions of the matter , innocent ignorance might infer that there was ...
... matter ; in fact , matter was only known as associated with form . If , then , God , by an instantaneous act , created matter and gave it form according to the dimensions of the matter , innocent ignorance might infer that there was ...
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... matter altogether . In the thirteenth century mind did , indeed , admit that matter was something - which it quite refuses to admit in the twentieth - but treated it as a nuisance to be abated . To the pure in spirit one argued in vain ...
... matter altogether . In the thirteenth century mind did , indeed , admit that matter was something - which it quite refuses to admit in the twentieth - but treated it as a nuisance to be abated . To the pure in spirit one argued in vain ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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