Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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... true theory appears , it will be its own evidence . Its test is , that it will explain all phenomena . Now many are thought not only unexplained but inex- plicable ; as language , sleep , madness , dreams , beasts , sex ...
... true theory appears , it will be its own evidence . Its test is , that it will explain all phenomena . Now many are thought not only unexplained but inex- plicable ; as language , sleep , madness , dreams , beasts , sex ...
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... true of proverbs , is true of all fables , parables , and allegories . - - This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied by some poet , but stands in the will of God , and so is free to be known by all men . It appears to men ...
... true of proverbs , is true of all fables , parables , and allegories . - - This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied by some poet , but stands in the will of God , and so is free to be known by all men . It appears to men ...
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... true throughout nature . So intimate is this Unity , that , it is easily seen , it lies under the undermost garment of nature , and betrays its source in Universal Spirit . For it per- VOL . I. 4 vades Thought also . Every universal ...
... true throughout nature . So intimate is this Unity , that , it is easily seen , it lies under the undermost garment of nature , and betrays its source in Universal Spirit . For it per- VOL . I. 4 vades Thought also . Every universal ...
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... true philosopher and the true poet are one , and a beauty , which is truth , and a truth , which is beauty , is the aim of both . Is not the charm of one of Plato's or Aristotle's definitions strictly like that of the Antigone of ...
... true philosopher and the true poet are one , and a beauty , which is truth , and a truth , which is beauty , is the aim of both . Is not the charm of one of Plato's or Aristotle's definitions strictly like that of the Antigone of ...
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... true ; " had already transferred nature into the mind , and left matter like an outcast corpse . 4. Intellectual science has been observed to beget invariably a doubt of the existence of matter . Tur- got said , " He that has never ...
... true ; " had already transferred nature into the mind , and left matter like an outcast corpse . 4. Intellectual science has been observed to beget invariably a doubt of the existence of matter . Tur- got said , " He that has never ...
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