Philosophy and Religion: Selections from the Manuscripts of the Late James HintonK. Paul, Trench, 1884 - 331 pages |
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... never worse than now - Men seek wrong ends - The life of society - The child - state of humanity - The value of good manners as showing the pattern for life - The end of civilization is a return to Nature - Life is in the sphere of good ...
... never worse than now - Men seek wrong ends - The life of society - The child - state of humanity - The value of good manners as showing the pattern for life - The end of civilization is a return to Nature - Life is in the sphere of good ...
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... never was , more than the effect ; the effect contains it in full . We have fallen into horrible con- fusions from this word " cause , " using it with so little understanding . I see it now clearly ; and that it is above all necessary ...
... never was , more than the effect ; the effect contains it in full . We have fallen into horrible con- fusions from this word " cause , " using it with so little understanding . I see it now clearly ; and that it is above all necessary ...
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... never tired of abusing our fore- fathers for doing . We argue from our senses , which is the very thing that is under dispute ; a most vicious circle . Men who maintain cause to be a form of thought , an universal law of mind , do not ...
... never tired of abusing our fore- fathers for doing . We argue from our senses , which is the very thing that is under dispute ; a most vicious circle . Men who maintain cause to be a form of thought , an universal law of mind , do not ...
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... never were . Surely the fact is just the same , whether we draw water from the earth by a bucket and pass it into a receiver , or whether we draw electricity by a machine , and pass it into one . The fact is as truly the same as the ...
... never were . Surely the fact is just the same , whether we draw water from the earth by a bucket and pass it into a receiver , or whether we draw electricity by a machine , and pass it into one . The fact is as truly the same as the ...
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... never would find in nature , nor make , any one of them . His very definitions are impossible , they exclude that which is essential to reality . Just so " things " cannot be , in true actual existence ; the very nature of them excludes ...
... never would find in nature , nor make , any one of them . His very definitions are impossible , they exclude that which is essential to reality . Just so " things " cannot be , in true actual existence ; the very nature of them excludes ...
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