Essays, Volume 1Houghton Mifflin, 1903 - 445 pages |
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... eternal unity . Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of mat- ter , a subtle ...
... eternal unity . Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of mat- ter , a subtle ...
Page 314
... eternal generation of the soul . Cause and effect are two sides of one fact . The same law of eternal procession ranges all that we call the virtues , and extinguishes each in the light of a better . The great man will not be prudent in ...
... eternal generation of the soul . Cause and effect are two sides of one fact . The same law of eternal procession ranges all that we call the virtues , and extinguishes each in the light of a better . The great man will not be prudent in ...
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... eternal generation of circles proceeds , the eternal generator abides . That central life is somewhat superior to creation , superior to knowledge and thought , and contains all its circles . Forever it labors to create a life and ...
... eternal generation of circles proceeds , the eternal generator abides . That central life is somewhat superior to creation , superior to knowledge and thought , and contains all its circles . Forever it labors to create a life and ...
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