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Humanity could not , after toilfully elabo- rating the laws of gravitation and chemical affinity , remain as barbarous and untutored as before . This was in part what Lessing had in his mind , when he said that if God were to hold in ...
Humanity could not , after toilfully elabo- rating the laws of gravitation and chemical affinity , remain as barbarous and untutored as before . This was in part what Lessing had in his mind , when he said that if God were to hold in ...
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SPENCER'S so - called " Synthetic Philosophy " is an at- tempt to generalize into a universal law the nebular hypothe- sis , the development hypothesis , and the theory of human pro- gress , and thus to bring all phenomena , whether of ...
SPENCER'S so - called " Synthetic Philosophy " is an at- tempt to generalize into a universal law the nebular hypothe- sis , the development hypothesis , and the theory of human pro- gress , and thus to bring all phenomena , whether of ...
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As the human providence which evokes the element of fire makes it possible that any house may burn and certain ... But the divining sense of humanity has touched the ultimate truth of this situation with a precision yet more admirable .
As the human providence which evokes the element of fire makes it possible that any house may burn and certain ... But the divining sense of humanity has touched the ultimate truth of this situation with a precision yet more admirable .
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Contents
LAURENCE Sterne | 1 |
METEORIC SHOWERS | 38 |
THE RELIGIOUS REFORM MOVEMENT IN ITALY | 51 |
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