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... opposite natures , and yet necessarily identical , and constituting Science by their identity . In like man- ner , although practical knowledge is in substance identical with speculative , ( for all knowledge is specu- lation , ) there ...
... opposite natures , and yet necessarily identical , and constituting Science by their identity . In like man- ner , although practical knowledge is in substance identical with speculative , ( for all knowledge is specu- lation , ) there ...
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... opposite error of too much despising and neglecting facts , and of thinking that the business of the inquirer after truth was only a profound and con- stant contemplation of the conceptions of his own mind . But of this hereafter . 5 ...
... opposite error of too much despising and neglecting facts , and of thinking that the business of the inquirer after truth was only a profound and con- stant contemplation of the conceptions of his own mind . But of this hereafter . 5 ...
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... opposite to the heaven in its own circle : and that it is reason- able that those which are nearest to the first revolu- tion should take the longest time in describing their own circle , and those that are furthest off , the least time ...
... opposite to the heaven in its own circle : and that it is reason- able that those which are nearest to the first revolu- tion should take the longest time in describing their own circle , and those that are furthest off , the least time ...
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... opposite opinions which has ever since that time agitated the speculative world , as men have urged the claims of Ideas or of Expe- rience to our respect , and as alternately each of these elements of knowledge has been elevated above ...
... opposite opinions which has ever since that time agitated the speculative world , as men have urged the claims of Ideas or of Expe- rience to our respect , and as alternately each of these elements of knowledge has been elevated above ...
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... opposite claims of theory and prac- tice interfered with the progress of science by the con- fusion they thus occasioned , they did so far more by drawing men away altogether from mere physical speculations . The Christian religion ...
... opposite claims of theory and prac- tice interfered with the progress of science by the con- fusion they thus occasioned , they did so far more by drawing men away altogether from mere physical speculations . The Christian religion ...
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