Philosophy and Religion: Selections from the Manuscripts of the Late James HintonK. Paul, Trench, 1884 - 331 pages |
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... 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 manners - Our life a ...
... 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 manners - Our life a ...
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... wrong than the right , and therefore by men who thought their only or chief business was to make the theories accord with the facts , the wrong was naturally adopted . But the structure of our minds demands the reversal of these views ...
... wrong than the right , and therefore by men who thought their only or chief business was to make the theories accord with the facts , the wrong was naturally adopted . But the structure of our minds demands the reversal of these views ...
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... wrong in thinking that I could improve history . What is this alternate excess but a vibration , what the union of the two but develop- ment ? We must excuse the vagaries of the period of liberty ; variety and apparent caprice are its ...
... wrong in thinking that I could improve history . What is this alternate excess but a vibration , what the union of the two but develop- ment ? We must excuse the vagaries of the period of liberty ; variety and apparent caprice are its ...
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... wrong , has made us think of “ our senses deceiving us . " The truly instinctive must be that which recognizes sensations as in us . Surely this is before intellect properly so - called . Surely intellect begins with the first inference ...
... wrong , has made us think of “ our senses deceiving us . " The truly instinctive must be that which recognizes sensations as in us . Surely this is before intellect properly so - called . Surely intellect begins with the first inference ...
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... wrong to regard the " not " as the fact , as we do with our material world : but there is also another erroneous way , that of Plato , the considering this world as an imperfect image of a world similar to it in all respects except that ...
... wrong to regard the " not " as the fact , as we do with our material world : but there is also another erroneous way , that of Plato , the considering this world as an imperfect image of a world similar to it in all respects except that ...
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