Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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Page 15
... 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 consists in the clearer vision of causes , which overlooks surface ...
... 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 consists in the clearer vision of causes , which overlooks surface ...
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... object in nature , 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 . All his faculties refer to natures out of him . All his faculties predict the world ...
... object in nature , 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 . All his faculties refer to natures out of him . All his faculties predict the world ...
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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 ...
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... objects it touches and brings within reach of the pupil , is his complacency . But chiefly is this apparent in creeds and churches , which are also classifications of some powerful mind acting on the great elemental thought of Duty ...
... objects it touches and brings within reach of the pupil , is his complacency . But chiefly is this apparent in creeds and churches , which are also classifications of some powerful mind acting on the great elemental thought of Duty ...
Page 95
... object , but is able to see the sensual allure- ment of an object , and not see the sensual hurt ; he sees the mermaid's head , but not the dragon's tail ; and thinks he can cut off that which he would have , from that which he would ...
... object , but is able to see the sensual allure- ment of an object , and not see the sensual hurt ; he sees the mermaid's head , but not the dragon's tail ; and thinks he can cut off that which he would have , from that which he would ...
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