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 8
... seems typical of his race , the notable Englishman usually seems an exception to his own people , and is often best appreciated in other lands . What is more singular - in spite of the happy combination in himself of character and ...
... seems typical of his race , the notable Englishman usually seems an exception to his own people , and is often best appreciated in other lands . What is more singular - in spite of the happy combination in himself of character and ...
Page 56
... seems to me the queerest idol ever manufactured in the philosophic cave . Were we scholastic absolutists , there might be more excuse . If we had an infallible intellect with its objective certitudes , we might feel ourselves disloyal ...
... seems to me the queerest idol ever manufactured in the philosophic cave . Were we scholastic absolutists , there might be more excuse . If we had an infallible intellect with its objective certitudes , we might feel ourselves disloyal ...
Page 562
... seem to retard or retrograde the civility of ages . But the world spirit is a good swimmer , and storms and waves cannot drown him . He snaps his finger at laws : and so , throughout history , heaven seems to affect low and poor means ...
... seem to retard or retrograde the civility of ages . But the world spirit is a good swimmer , and storms and waves cannot drown him . He snaps his finger at laws : and so , throughout history , heaven seems to affect low and poor means ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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