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... sense of outrage : When we went there ( a missionary is speaking ) they had no sense of sin at all . They broke the commandments one after the other and never knew they were doing wrong . And I think that was the most difficult part of ...
... sense of outrage : When we went there ( a missionary is speaking ) they had no sense of sin at all . They broke the commandments one after the other and never knew they were doing wrong . And I think that was the most difficult part of ...
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... sense of taste is more important than the ęsthetic instinct . A man can get through life more easily with- out an ęsthetic sense than without a sense of taste . If , as seems reasonable , the various faculties of man are ranked ...
... sense of taste is more important than the ęsthetic instinct . A man can get through life more easily with- out an ęsthetic sense than without a sense of taste . If , as seems reasonable , the various faculties of man are ranked ...
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... sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking . It is made up of the prej- udices of childhood , the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers . Common - sense makes a ...
... sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking . It is made up of the prej- udices of childhood , the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers . Common - sense makes a ...
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