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... animal forms . Closely connected with this question of a conscious soul is the old postulate of its immortality , which arises from our fear of annihilation , or rather from our desire to live . The claim that the soul should continue ...
... animal forms . Closely connected with this question of a conscious soul is the old postulate of its immortality , which arises from our fear of annihilation , or rather from our desire to live . The claim that the soul should continue ...
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... animal whose average height is about five feet and a half and whose age rarely ex- ceeds a hundred years , is indeed a mere infinitesimal microbe . In this naturalistic universe , where every motion in the heav- ens has its regular ...
... animal whose average height is about five feet and a half and whose age rarely ex- ceeds a hundred years , is indeed a mere infinitesimal microbe . In this naturalistic universe , where every motion in the heav- ens has its regular ...
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... animal could understand . We are still capable of motives unparalleled in animal psychology . And we still need very urgently to know what this difference means . What of the values which we assign to love , to art , and to knowledge ...
... animal could understand . We are still capable of motives unparalleled in animal psychology . And we still need very urgently to know what this difference means . What of the values which we assign to love , to art , and to knowledge ...
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