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... ideal side when the problem of knowledge is really probed to the bottom . But we are naturally anxious to confine our subject within limits , and to keep therefore closely to the order of ideas which it directly suggests . And with this ...
... ideal side when the problem of knowledge is really probed to the bottom . But we are naturally anxious to confine our subject within limits , and to keep therefore closely to the order of ideas which it directly suggests . And with this ...
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... ideal , becomes with equal necessity the object of supreme regard , or the centre of religious reverence and affection . We have already indicated our opinion that Posi- tivism , in order to be understood fully , must be taken as a ...
... ideal , becomes with equal necessity the object of supreme regard , or the centre of religious reverence and affection . We have already indicated our opinion that Posi- tivism , in order to be understood fully , must be taken as a ...
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... ideal of Humanity as exhibited in its most perfect forms . And this is exactly what Comte has taught . Humanity is with him the collec- tive sum of individual laws and existences . It is not an abstraction , but the highest reality ...
... ideal of Humanity as exhibited in its most perfect forms . And this is exactly what Comte has taught . Humanity is with him the collec- tive sum of individual laws and existences . It is not an abstraction , but the highest reality ...
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... how different from the human ideal of the Gospel , which is " preached to the poor , " and which came " to save that which was lost " ! 66 66 " 9 be able worthily to embody Humanity except in the form 76 AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM .
... how different from the human ideal of the Gospel , which is " preached to the poor , " and which came " to save that which was lost " ! 66 66 " 9 be able worthily to embody Humanity except in the form 76 AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM .
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... ideal of Humanity . Together they represent " the three natural modes of human continuity - the past , the present , and the future - as also the three degrees . of solidarity which bind us to our superiors , our equals , and our ...
... ideal of Humanity . Together they represent " the three natural modes of human continuity - the past , the present , and the future - as also the three degrees . of solidarity which bind us to our superiors , our equals , and our ...
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