Man's Place in the Cosmos: And Other EssaysW. Blackwood and sons, 1897 - 308 páginas |
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... perhaps dismissed from public attention before its significance had been exhausted , or indeed properly grasped . Professor Huxley's argu- ment and the criticisms it called forth illuminate most instructively some deep - seated ...
... perhaps dismissed from public attention before its significance had been exhausted , or indeed properly grasped . Professor Huxley's argu- ment and the criticisms it called forth illuminate most instructively some deep - seated ...
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... perhaps the libertine who is right , and who practises the true philosophy of life . Many will remember , too , how Matthew Arnold took up this parable when he discoursed in America on the cult of the great goddess Lubricity , to which ...
... perhaps the libertine who is right , and who practises the true philosophy of life . Many will remember , too , how Matthew Arnold took up this parable when he discoursed in America on the cult of the great goddess Lubricity , to which ...
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... perhaps ask in a note in what sense even existence could be attributed to a system of unconscious forces - a material world per se . We cannot perform the abstraction required of us in conceiving such a system . Nature refuses to be ...
... perhaps ask in a note in what sense even existence could be attributed to a system of unconscious forces - a material world per se . We cannot perform the abstraction required of us in conceiving such a system . Nature refuses to be ...
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... perhaps be held to excuse the personal references with which it opens . The general survey of the philosophical field which it undertakes , and the philosophical point of view indicated in the concluding pages , seem to give it a useful ...
... perhaps be held to excuse the personal references with which it opens . The general survey of the philosophical field which it undertakes , and the philosophical point of view indicated in the concluding pages , seem to give it a useful ...
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... perhaps to literature , but still substantially with a schoolboy's views of existence ; and there , in the admirably stimulating lectures to which I listened , a new world seemed to open before me . What the student most needs at such a ...
... perhaps to literature , but still substantially with a schoolboy's views of existence ; and there , in the admirably stimulating lectures to which I listened , a new world seemed to open before me . What the student most needs at such a ...
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