The Borzoi College ReaderCharles Muscatine, Marlene Griffith |
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... kind of thinking . It doubtless influences all our speculations in its persistent tendency to self- magnification and self - justification , which are its chief preoccupations , but it is the last thing to make directly or indirectly ...
... kind of thinking . It doubtless influences all our speculations in its persistent tendency to self- magnification and self - justification , which are its chief preoccupations , but it is the last thing to make directly or indirectly ...
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... kind of thought that has raised man from his pristine , subsavage ignorance and squalor to the degree of knowledge and comfort which he now possesses . On his capacity to continue and greatly extend this kind of thinking depends his ...
... kind of thought that has raised man from his pristine , subsavage ignorance and squalor to the degree of knowledge and comfort which he now possesses . On his capacity to continue and greatly extend this kind of thinking depends his ...
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... kind of régime claim that it is a democracy , and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning . Words of this kind are often used in a consciously dishonest way . That is , the person who ...
... kind of régime claim that it is a democracy , and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning . Words of this kind are often used in a consciously dishonest way . That is , the person who ...
Contents
THE NECESSITY FOR THINKING | 3 |
John Henry Newman | 43 |
THE RIGHT USE OF LANGUAGE | 57 |
Copyright | |
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