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" Tou must allow me to thank you for the very great interest with which I have at last slowly read the whole of your work. ... I never in my life read so lucid an expositor (and therefore thinker) as you are... "
The American Monthly Review of Reviews - Page 220
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Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by ...

John Fiske - Folklore - 1865 - 278 pages
...you for the very great interest with which I have at last slowly read the whole of your work. . . . I never in my life read so lucid an expositor (and therefore thinker) as you are ; and I think that 1 understand nearly the whole, though perhaps less clearly about cosmic theism and...
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Excursions of an Evolutionist

John Fiske - Evolution - 1883 - 396 pages
...thank you for the very great interest with which I have at last slowly read the whole of your work. ... I never in my life read so lucid an expositor (and therefore thinker) as you are ; and I think that I understand nearly the whole, though perhaps less clearly about cosmic theism and...
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Excursions of an Evolutionist

John Fiske - Evolution - 1883 - 400 pages
...thank you for the very great interest with which I have at last slowly read the whole of your work. ... I never in my life read so lucid an expositor (and therefore thinker) as you are ; and I think that I understand nearly the whole, though perhaps less clearly about cosmic theism and...
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The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of His Origin

John Fiske - Literary Criticism - 1884 - 144 pages
...you for the very great interest with which I have at last slowly read the whole of your work. . . . ' I never in my life read so lucid an expositor (and therefore thinker) as you are ; and I think that I understand nearly the whole, though perhaps less clearly about cosmic theism and...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 24

Science - 1884 - 902 pages
...and Mr. Charles Darwin, after having gone slowly and carefully through it, wrote to the author, '' I never in my life read so lucid an expositor — and therefore thinker — as you are " ; and he adds, " It pleased me to find that here and there I had arrived from my own crude thoughts...
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The Destiny of Man: Viewed in the Light of His Origin

John Fiske - Human beings - 1884 - 142 pages
...thank you for the very great interest with which I have at last slowly read the whole of your work. ... I never in my life read so lucid an expositor (and therefore thinker) as yon are ; and I think that I understand nearly the whole, though perhaps less clearly about cosmic...
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The Idea of God as Affected by Modern Knowledge

John Fiske - God - 1885 - 196 pages
...you for the very great interest with which I have at last slowly read the whole of your work. . . . , I never in my life read so lucid an expositor (and therefore thinker) as you are ; and I think that I understand nearly the whole, though perhaps less clearly about cosmic theism and...
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Darwinism: And Other Essays

John Fiske - American essays - 1885 - 404 pages
...thank you for the very great interest with which I have at last slowly read the whole of your work. ... I never in my life read so lucid an expositor (and therefore thinker) as you are ; and I think that I understand nearly the whole, though perhaps less clearly about cosmic theism and...
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Darwinism: And Other Essays

John Fiske - American essays - 1885 - 402 pages
...thank you for the very great interest with which I have at last slowly read the whole of your work. ... I never in my life read so lucid an expositor (and therefore thinker) as you are ; and I think that I understand nearly the whole, though perhaps less clearly about cosmic theism and...
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The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an ..., Volume 2

Charles Darwin - 1887 - 572 pages
...points I did not even understand H. Spencer's general doctrine ; for his style is too hard work for me. I never in my life read so lucid an expositor (and therefore thinker) as you are ; and I think that I understand nearly the whole—perhaps less clearly about Cosmic Theism and Causation...
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