Principia: A Series of Essays on the Principles of Evil Manifesting Themselves in These Last Times in Religion, Philosophy, and Politics |
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... the Working classes - National Debts - Commercial Frauds - American Banks - Increase of Crime - Pauperism - The New Poor - law - The Workhouse Test - Its Effects . 347 ESSAY XVII . THE TREE OF KNOwledge . Another Dark CONTENTS . xi.
... the Working classes - National Debts - Commercial Frauds - American Banks - Increase of Crime - Pauperism - The New Poor - law - The Workhouse Test - Its Effects . 347 ESSAY XVII . THE TREE OF KNOwledge . Another Dark CONTENTS . xi.
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... KNOwledge . Another Dark Age possible - The Press no Guarantee against it - Ephemeral Literature may destroy the Higher Tastes- Knowledge our Summum Bonum - Science makes us Blind- Moral Philosophy is extinct among us - Philosophy is ...
... KNOwledge . Another Dark Age possible - The Press no Guarantee against it - Ephemeral Literature may destroy the Higher Tastes- Knowledge our Summum Bonum - Science makes us Blind- Moral Philosophy is extinct among us - Philosophy is ...
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... knowledge and education ; the greater cheap- ness of knowledge ; the appetite and effort to enjoy B 2 ESSAY I. ] 3 SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT .
... knowledge and education ; the greater cheap- ness of knowledge ; the appetite and effort to enjoy B 2 ESSAY I. ] 3 SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT .
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... knowledge ; the appetite and effort to enjoy it , in mechanics ' institutes and other societies ; the dispo- sition to associate in large and friendly bodies for com- mon purposes , whether clubs or otherwise ; the won- derful ...
... knowledge ; the appetite and effort to enjoy it , in mechanics ' institutes and other societies ; the dispo- sition to associate in large and friendly bodies for com- mon purposes , whether clubs or otherwise ; the won- derful ...
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... knowledge , or art , or invention and discovery , or liberty and liberality , - all must confess that the ratio of advance has been and is increasing , and must increase with accelerating velo- city ; and that the tendency , if not the ...
... knowledge , or art , or invention and discovery , or liberty and liberality , - all must confess that the ratio of advance has been and is increasing , and must increase with accelerating velo- city ; and that the tendency , if not the ...
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