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... sense , is utterly barren . It is of no profit to theism , which must be taken for granted before the assertion can be made ; and it is of no profit to science , which must still ask its question , " How ? " Setting aside , then , the ...
... sense , is utterly barren . It is of no profit to theism , which must be taken for granted before the assertion can be made ; and it is of no profit to science , which must still ask its question , " How ? " Setting aside , then , the ...
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... sense . It may go on adding increments to its intelligence until it evolves Newtons and Beethovens , while its physical structure will undergo but slight and secondary modifications . Obviously the first beginning of such a race of crea ...
... sense . It may go on adding increments to its intelligence until it evolves Newtons and Beethovens , while its physical structure will undergo but slight and secondary modifications . Obviously the first beginning of such a race of crea ...
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... sense . It is by following out this line of inquiry that we shall eluci- date the question of the causes of man's enormous intellectual superiority over his nearest zoological congeners . Meanwhile , and until further light shall have ...
... sense . It is by following out this line of inquiry that we shall eluci- date the question of the causes of man's enormous intellectual superiority over his nearest zoological congeners . Meanwhile , and until further light shall have ...
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... sense , is a strange , not to say comical , spectacle . " What next ? " one is inclined to ask . Positivists are apt to have , indeed , an eccle- siastical style of expression , and one would almost think , from his manner , that Mr ...
... sense , is a strange , not to say comical , spectacle . " What next ? " one is inclined to ask . Positivists are apt to have , indeed , an eccle- siastical style of expression , and one would almost think , from his manner , that Mr ...
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... sense ; but , after we have heard it repeated fifty times that Alfred was an Englishman , and Charles the Great was not a Frenchman , we may perhaps succeed in waking up to the historical import of such statements . In this pithy though ...
... sense ; but , after we have heard it repeated fifty times that Alfred was an Englishman , and Charles the Great was not a Frenchman , we may perhaps succeed in waking up to the historical import of such statements . In this pithy though ...
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