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... intellectual life for comparison ; to borrow the metaphor of a famous stud- ent of his kind , it is the magic wand , the diamond- hilted sword , by which man will conquer his salvation through learning the truth . We exclaim , with ...
... intellectual life for comparison ; to borrow the metaphor of a famous stud- ent of his kind , it is the magic wand , the diamond- hilted sword , by which man will conquer his salvation through learning the truth . We exclaim , with ...
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... Intellectual Process . - The chasm between the human and the brute mind widens when we come to look more closely at the various steps of the intel- lectual process , that is , at the method of reasoning . To be either clear or conscious ...
... Intellectual Process . - The chasm between the human and the brute mind widens when we come to look more closely at the various steps of the intel- lectual process , that is , at the method of reasoning . To be either clear or conscious ...
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... intellectual process is of a mechan- ico - chemical character , a mere bodily function , to be classed with digestion or circulation . This opinion has of late years been warmly espoused in the United States . That intellectual actions ...
... intellectual process is of a mechan- ico - chemical character , a mere bodily function , to be classed with digestion or circulation . This opinion has of late years been warmly espoused in the United States . That intellectual actions ...
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... intellectual development . The ancient Greeks embodied this truth in the pregnant myth of Prometheus ( Forethought ) , who stole fire from the gods and gave it unto men and his brother Epimetheus ( Afterthought ) . He who is willing to ...
... intellectual development . The ancient Greeks embodied this truth in the pregnant myth of Prometheus ( Forethought ) , who stole fire from the gods and gave it unto men and his brother Epimetheus ( Afterthought ) . He who is willing to ...
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... intellectual field by losses of many a power which would serve him well had he retained it . He has forfeited the instincts which once were his guides , the acuteness of his senses has gone , the happy carelessness of his youth has ...
... intellectual field by losses of many a power which would serve him well had he retained it . He has forfeited the instincts which once were his guides , the acuteness of his senses has gone , the happy carelessness of his youth has ...
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Page 204 - Earth Sculpture ; or, The Origin of Land-Forms. By JAMES GEIKIE, LL.D., DCL, FRS, etc., Murchison Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the University of Edinburgh ; author of " The Great Ice Age,
Page 2 - If it may be doubted whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas that way to any degree; this, I think, I may be positive in, — that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.
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Page 138 - A man who was not impelled by any deep, instinctive feeling, to sacrifice his life for the good of others, yet was roused to such actions by a sense of glory, would by his example excite the same wish for glory in other men, and would strengthen by exercise the noble feeling of admiration. He might thus do far more good to his tribe than by begetting offspring with a tendency to inherit his own high character.
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