Principles and Problems of Right Thinking: A Textbook for Logic, Reflective Thinking, and Orientation CoursesHarper & brothers, 1928 - 590 pages |
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... earth was the astronomical center of the universe , that heavier bodies fell with greater acceleration than light ones , that night air was apt to cause malaria , that people who doubted the prev- alent religious ideas were apt to be ...
... earth was the astronomical center of the universe , that heavier bodies fell with greater acceleration than light ones , that night air was apt to cause malaria , that people who doubted the prev- alent religious ideas were apt to be ...
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... earth , where moth and rust do corrupt , " in which he pointed out that the modern enterprising business man does not really violate this prohibition ; he places his funds in bank vaults which are specially constructed to avoid these ...
... earth , where moth and rust do corrupt , " in which he pointed out that the modern enterprising business man does not really violate this prohibition ; he places his funds in bank vaults which are specially constructed to avoid these ...
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... earth is the center of the universe and that species of animals were separately created are historical examples of such basic ideas . It seems , so to speak , to conservative minds , like breaking a treaty of intellectual peace and ...
... earth is the center of the universe and that species of animals were separately created are historical examples of such basic ideas . It seems , so to speak , to conservative minds , like breaking a treaty of intellectual peace and ...
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... earth . 6. The king is the self - appointed oppressor of his country . 7. God is the Divine Being . 8. Fun is frolicsome amusement or merriment . tions as depend- ent on the The second important point is this . There is no one ...
... earth . 6. The king is the self - appointed oppressor of his country . 7. God is the Divine Being . 8. Fun is frolicsome amusement or merriment . tions as depend- ent on the The second important point is this . There is no one ...
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... earth moves round the sun , and therefore must be a planet . 5. Power is desired by all men . Now money is power , and hence it must be desired by all men . The teacher who desires will find this a good point at which to ex- plain the ...
... earth moves round the sun , and therefore must be a planet . 5. Power is desired by all men . Now money is power , and hence it must be desired by all men . The teacher who desires will find this a good point at which to ex- plain the ...
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Page 504 - But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes actuated...
Page 458 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Page 543 - Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle, Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse, and under his ribs the heart of the people, Laughing! Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.
Page 417 - To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.
Page 530 - Most fortunately it happens that, since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression of my senses, which obliterate ah1 these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when, after three or four hours...
Page 504 - The diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of Government.
Page 417 - Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Page 323 - The standard deviation, mathematically, is the square root of the average of the squares of the deviations of the individual cases from the mean.
Page 483 - To sustain this statute would not be, in our judgment, a recognition of the lawful exertion of congressional authority over interstate commerce, but would sanction an invasion by the Federal power of the control of a matter purely local in its character and over which no authority has been delegated to Congress in conferring the power to regulate commerce among the States.
Page 479 - ... have been employed or permitted to work more than eight hours in any day or more than six days in any week, or after the hour of seven o'clock post meridian, or before the hour of six o'clock ante meridian, during any portion of the taxable year...