Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 17
... objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic likeness , or by the relation of cause and effect . The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes , which neglects surface dif ...
... objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic likeness , or by the relation of cause and effect . The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes , which neglects surface dif ...
Page 27
... objects meet his eyes . The pastoral nations were needy and hungry to desperation ; and this intel- lectual nomadism , in its excess , bankrupts the mind through the dissipation of power on a miscellany of objects . The home - keeping ...
... objects meet his eyes . The pastoral nations were needy and hungry to desperation ; and this intel- lectual nomadism , in its excess , bankrupts the mind through the dissipation of power on a miscellany of objects . The home - keeping ...
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... object in na- ture , to reduce it under the dominion of man . A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties re- fer to natures out of him and predict the world he is to inhabit ...
... object in na- ture , to reduce it under the dominion of man . A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties re- fer to natures out of him and predict the world he is to inhabit ...
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... object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this correspondency . Let it ...
... object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this correspondency . Let it ...
Page 78
... objects it touches and brings within reach of the pupil , is his compla- cency . But chiefly is this apparent in creeds and churches , which are also classifications of some pow- erful mind acting on the elemental thought of duty and ...
... objects it touches and brings within reach of the pupil , is his compla- cency . But chiefly is this apparent in creeds and churches , which are also classifications of some pow- erful mind acting on the elemental thought of duty and ...
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