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As we enter on this noble inheritance we greatly extend our memories and our knowledge of human beings . The unaided memory of any living human being runs back only a few decades ; the college undergraduate remembers less than twenty ...
As we enter on this noble inheritance we greatly extend our memories and our knowledge of human beings . The unaided memory of any living human being runs back only a few decades ; the college undergraduate remembers less than twenty ...
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exa human nature complete on all its sides , re self reflect it , to conquer and transform all mains the true ideal of perfection still ; just this vice and hideousness ? Indeed , the strongas the Puritan's ideal of perfection remains ...
exa human nature complete on all its sides , re self reflect it , to conquer and transform all mains the true ideal of perfection still ; just this vice and hideousness ? Indeed , the strongas the Puritan's ideal of perfection remains ...
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Thomas Huxley's optimistic belief that evolution might change human nature itself proved true , but instead of ... by natural science as the background of intellectual life was the sense of separatior of humanity from the cosmos .
Thomas Huxley's optimistic belief that evolution might change human nature itself proved true , but instead of ... by natural science as the background of intellectual life was the sense of separatior of humanity from the cosmos .
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EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH | 14 |
My Heart Leaps Up | 40 |
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