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We believe this beneficent operation of intelligence was swerving not one degree from its ancient course when under the name of the scientific spirit it once more laid its influence upon religion . If the shock here seemed too violent ...
We believe this beneficent operation of intelligence was swerving not one degree from its ancient course when under the name of the scientific spirit it once more laid its influence upon religion . If the shock here seemed too violent ...
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We apprehend chairs , tables , books , trees , horses , clouds , stars , rain so promptly and directly that it is hard to realize that once these objects were mere brute things , as alien to our understanding as the sounds of the ...
We apprehend chairs , tables , books , trees , horses , clouds , stars , rain so promptly and directly that it is hard to realize that once these objects were mere brute things , as alien to our understanding as the sounds of the ...
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Cato's own words will at once explain all I feel about old age . M. CATO . PUBLIUS CORNELIUS SCIPIO AFRICANUS ( the younger ) . GAIUS LAELIUS . Scipio . Many a time have I in conversation with my friend Gaius Laelius here expressed my ...
Cato's own words will at once explain all I feel about old age . M. CATO . PUBLIUS CORNELIUS SCIPIO AFRICANUS ( the younger ) . GAIUS LAELIUS . Scipio . Many a time have I in conversation with my friend Gaius Laelius here expressed my ...
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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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