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... mind of an abstract Man whose traits corresponded to those of the honnĂȘte homme , the man of parts and sense , who had become the moral norm of the age'.5 Toland's shabby life - history was certainly not that of a gentleman , yet he ...
... mind of an abstract Man whose traits corresponded to those of the honnĂȘte homme , the man of parts and sense , who had become the moral norm of the age'.5 Toland's shabby life - history was certainly not that of a gentleman , yet he ...
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... mind . From this arose the view that Locke had ushered in a world of grey , inanimate and lifeless objects , solid and impenetrable , with such things as colour and fragrance transferred to the perceiver's mind . This is a cari- cature ...
... mind . From this arose the view that Locke had ushered in a world of grey , inanimate and lifeless objects , solid and impenetrable , with such things as colour and fragrance transferred to the perceiver's mind . This is a cari- cature ...
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... mind unburdened with care , and vacant to futurity , saturated with present good , and at leisure to derive gratification from the prospects of posterity . ' His style reaches to a noble insistence : ' Whatever withdraws us from the ...
... mind unburdened with care , and vacant to futurity , saturated with present good , and at leisure to derive gratification from the prospects of posterity . ' His style reaches to a noble insistence : ' Whatever withdraws us from the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Landscape of the Age | 5 |
The Shape of Society | 7 |
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