Critical and miscellaneous essays, Volumen1Carey, 1852 |
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... caused more just surprise . But we will not go into the discussion of these points . The book , were it far more orthodox , or far more heretical than it is , would not much edify or corrupt the present generation . The men of our time ...
... caused more just surprise . But we will not go into the discussion of these points . The book , were it far more orthodox , or far more heretical than it is , would not much edify or corrupt the present generation . The men of our time ...
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... cause . The fact is , that common observers reason from the pro- gress of the experimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more ...
... cause . The fact is , that common observers reason from the pro- gress of the experimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more ...
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... cause , and partly the effect of a corresponding change in the nature of their intellectual operations ; a change by which science gains , and poetry loses . Generalization is neces- sary to the advancement of knowledge , but ...
... cause , and partly the effect of a corresponding change in the nature of their intellectual operations ; a change by which science gains , and poetry loses . Generalization is neces- sary to the advancement of knowledge , but ...
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... causes . We therefore infer that there exists something which is not material . But of this something we have no idea . We can define it only by negatives . We can reason about it only by symbols . We use the word , but we have no image ...
... causes . We therefore infer that there exists something which is not material . But of this something we have no idea . We can define it only by negatives . We can reason about it only by symbols . We use the word , but we have no image ...
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... causes which Gibbon has assigned for the rapidity with which Christianity spread over the world , while Judaism scarcely ever acquired a proselyte , operated more powerfully than this feeling . God , the uncreated , the incomprehensible ...
... causes which Gibbon has assigned for the rapidity with which Christianity spread over the world , while Judaism scarcely ever acquired a proselyte , operated more powerfully than this feeling . God , the uncreated , the incomprehensible ...
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