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Page 11
... objects were correspondingly unstable . Knowledge , by contrast , was wholly lucid ; it carried its own guarantee against error , and the objects with which it was concerned were eternally what they were , and so were exempt from change ...
... objects were correspondingly unstable . Knowledge , by contrast , was wholly lucid ; it carried its own guarantee against error , and the objects with which it was concerned were eternally what they were , and so were exempt from change ...
Page 271
... objects associated with his life and Passion have become centres of pilgrimages , objects of venera- tion , and sources of miracles . Muḥammad , though reject- ing the demand to vindicate his ministry by signs , never- theless became ...
... objects associated with his life and Passion have become centres of pilgrimages , objects of venera- tion , and sources of miracles . Muḥammad , though reject- ing the demand to vindicate his ministry by signs , never- theless became ...
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... objects what libraries do for books and what ar- chives do for official documents . Society does not save these things just to hoard them but to use them . Museums accordingly are organized to use their treasures for cul- tural purposes ...
... objects what libraries do for books and what ar- chives do for official documents . Society does not save these things just to hoard them but to use them . Museums accordingly are organized to use their treasures for cul- tural purposes ...
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