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... EXISTS IN THE MORAL WORLD . Moral Progress is the Realization of Ideas . CHAP . XXVI . * OF THE " PHILOSOPHY OF THE INFINITE . " God is Eternal . CHAP . XXVII . * SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON ON INERTIA AND 1 . WEIGHT . Primary and Secondary ...
... EXISTS IN THE MORAL WORLD . Moral Progress is the Realization of Ideas . CHAP . XXVI . * OF THE " PHILOSOPHY OF THE INFINITE . " God is Eternal . CHAP . XXVII . * SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON ON INERTIA AND 1 . WEIGHT . Primary and Secondary ...
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... exist in the universe . 7. In the Sciences of Classification , and especially in the classification of animals , higher claims have been made for Aristotle , which I have discussed in the History . I have there attempted to show that ...
... exist in the universe . 7. In the Sciences of Classification , and especially in the classification of animals , higher claims have been made for Aristotle , which I have discussed in the History . I have there attempted to show that ...
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... exist , and in what manner he was constructed . This is , he says , no part of medicine . In like manner he blames and refutes those who make some simple element , Hot , or Cold , or Moist , or Dry , the cause of 1 The remainder of this ...
... exist , and in what manner he was constructed . This is , he says , no part of medicine . In like manner he blames and refutes those who make some simple element , Hot , or Cold , or Moist , or Dry , the cause of 1 The remainder of this ...
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... , ceased to ob- tain in later times . Indeed , it ceased to exist just at that time , in consequence of the establishment of scientific astronomy by the exertions of Plato and his contemporaries D 2 THE LATER GREEKS . 35.
... , ceased to ob- tain in later times . Indeed , it ceased to exist just at that time , in consequence of the establishment of scientific astronomy by the exertions of Plato and his contemporaries D 2 THE LATER GREEKS . 35.
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... exists , they never appear to have fathomed , even so far as to discern how wide and deep it is . In the development of the ideas by which nature is to be understood , they went no fur- ther than their Greek masters had gone , nor ...
... exists , they never appear to have fathomed , even so far as to discern how wide and deep it is . In the development of the ideas by which nature is to be understood , they went no fur- ther than their Greek masters had gone , nor ...
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