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Page 277
... Knowledge is power .'- BACON . " Riccabocca . " Bacon make such an aphorism ! The last man in the world to have said anything so pert and so shallow . " Leonard , ( astonished . ) — " Do you mean to say , sir , that that aphorism is not ...
... Knowledge is power .'- BACON . " Riccabocca . " Bacon make such an aphorism ! The last man in the world to have said anything so pert and so shallow . " Leonard , ( astonished . ) — " Do you mean to say , sir , that that aphorism is not ...
Page 278
... knowledge ; I argue against knowledge- worship . For here , I see in your essay , that you are not contented with raising human knowledge into something like divine omnipotence , you must also confound her with virtue . According to you ...
... knowledge ; I argue against knowledge- worship . For here , I see in your essay , that you are not contented with raising human knowledge into something like divine omnipotence , you must also confound her with virtue . According to you ...
Page 279
... Knowledge is power , but not in the sense in which I have interpreted the saying . " Parson . " Knowledge is one of the powers in the moral world , but one that , in its immediate result , is not always of the most worldly advantage to ...
... Knowledge is power , but not in the sense in which I have interpreted the saying . " Parson . " Knowledge is one of the powers in the moral world , but one that , in its immediate result , is not always of the most worldly advantage to ...
Contents
Antarctic Expedition | 1 |
Abd el Kader and London | 48 |
Beranger Youngs Transla | 79 |
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