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I was glad to learn that the mind of man ( himself the product of natural causes ) was a function of the brain subject like the rest of his body to the laws of cause and effect and that these laws were the same as those that governed ...
I was glad to learn that the mind of man ( himself the product of natural causes ) was a function of the brain subject like the rest of his body to the laws of cause and effect and that these laws were the same as those that governed ...
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cause people do not naturally talk to themselves out loud ; he may not telescope events , by which he was able to accelerate his action , but must cause them to occur as deliberately as in real life ; he must eschew accident and chance ...
cause people do not naturally talk to themselves out loud ; he may not telescope events , by which he was able to accelerate his action , but must cause them to occur as deliberately as in real life ; he must eschew accident and chance ...
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Another maintains that every event has a cause and since the universe exists it must have a cause and this cause is the Creator . A third , the argument from design , which Kant said was the clearest , oldest and best suited to human ...
Another maintains that every event has a cause and since the universe exists it must have a cause and this cause is the Creator . A third , the argument from design , which Kant said was the clearest , oldest and best suited to human ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | W. Heinemann, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0434456101, 9780434456109 |
| Length | 317 pages |
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