Scientific Use of the Imagination and Other EssaysLongmans, Green and Company, 1872 - 63 páginas |
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... philosophy of Newton . For a time Mr. Bain became my principal campanion . I found him learned and practical , shining generally with a dry light , but exhibiting at times a flush of emotional strength , which proved that even logicians ...
... philosophy of Newton . For a time Mr. Bain became my principal campanion . I found him learned and practical , shining generally with a dry light , but exhibiting at times a flush of emotional strength , which proved that even logicians ...
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... philosophers may be right in affirming that we cannot transcend experience . But we can , at all events , carry it a long way from its origin . We can also magnify , diminish , qualify , and combine experiences , so as to render them ...
... philosophers may be right in affirming that we cannot transcend experience . But we can , at all events , carry it a long way from its origin . We can also magnify , diminish , qualify , and combine experiences , so as to render them ...
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... philosophy . But a strong constitution defies the parasite , and in our case , as we question the phenomena , probability grows like growing health , until in the end the malady of doubt is completely extirpated . The first question ...
... philosophy . But a strong constitution defies the parasite , and in our case , as we question the phenomena , probability grows like growing health , until in the end the malady of doubt is completely extirpated . The first question ...
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... philosophy . This doctrine affirms that the impres- sions made upon us by any circumstance , or combination of circumstances , depends upon our previous state . Two travellers upon the same peak , the one having ascended to it from the ...
... philosophy . This doctrine affirms that the impres- sions made upon us by any circumstance , or combination of circumstances , depends upon our previous state . Two travellers upon the same peak , the one having ascended to it from the ...
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... philosophy , all our poetry , all our science , and all our art - Plato , Shakspeare , Newton , and Raphael - are potential in the fires of the sun . We long to learn something of our origin . If the Evolution hypothesis be correct ...
... philosophy , all our poetry , all our science , and all our art - Plato , Shakspeare , Newton , and Raphael - are potential in the fires of the sun . We long to learn something of our origin . If the Evolution hypothesis be correct ...
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