The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1953 - 400 pages |
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Page 52
... nature , and this too enforced the idea of conformity to unvarying and uni- versal standards , for nature indicated not that ' nature ' ex- ternal to man which romantic poetry celebrates but a cosmos exhibiting a uniformity of law ...
... nature , and this too enforced the idea of conformity to unvarying and uni- versal standards , for nature indicated not that ' nature ' ex- ternal to man which romantic poetry celebrates but a cosmos exhibiting a uniformity of law ...
Page 299
... natural religion ; to the corruptions of civilization , natural morality . The savages are not without religious consciousness , for nature has given them a percep- tion of the divine ; socially , they live in equality according to nature ...
... natural religion ; to the corruptions of civilization , natural morality . The savages are not without religious consciousness , for nature has given them a percep- tion of the divine ; socially , they live in equality according to nature ...
Page 323
... nature the same thing as reason , or whether at times they think of nature as some- thing purer than civilization and standing in opposition to it . Once or twice , indeed , they speak like noble and un- corrupted children of nature ...
... nature the same thing as reason , or whether at times they think of nature as some- thing purer than civilization and standing in opposition to it . Once or twice , indeed , they speak like noble and un- corrupted children of nature ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 3 |
MOOR PARK AND SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE | 10 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a | 49 |
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