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A brute animal , as far as we know , is pushed on from behind ; it is moved in accordance with its present physiological state by some present external stimulus . The being who can think is moved by remote considerations , by results ...
A brute animal , as far as we know , is pushed on from behind ; it is moved in accordance with its present physiological state by some present external stimulus . The being who can think is moved by remote considerations , by results ...
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To live in the present is compatible with condensation of far - reaching meanings in the present . Such enrichment of the present for its own sake is the just heritage of childhood and the best insurer of future growth .
To live in the present is compatible with condensation of far - reaching meanings in the present . Such enrichment of the present for its own sake is the just heritage of childhood and the best insurer of future growth .
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The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses ; fools think that it is no longer ours , that it no longer pertains to us . There is a painting of a ropemaker in hell with an ass gobbling ...
The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses ; fools think that it is no longer ours , that it no longer pertains to us . There is a painting of a ropemaker in hell with an ass gobbling ...
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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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