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... world bear much the same relation to the total product in those fields that the contents of the Ashmolean bear to the cities and temples , theatres and houses , that once formed the complete and familiar scene of ancient life .
... world bear much the same relation to the total product in those fields that the contents of the Ashmolean bear to the cities and temples , theatres and houses , that once formed the complete and familiar scene of ancient life .
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We can take it as the most complete expression that the artist's skill could achieve , of what he set out to express . There are no reservations - nothing that the artist could have any motive , conscious or unconscious , for keeping in ...
We can take it as the most complete expression that the artist's skill could achieve , of what he set out to express . There are no reservations - nothing that the artist could have any motive , conscious or unconscious , for keeping in ...
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So the belief in universal law led modern science to complete determinism . Miracles were not to happen . The gods were either eliminated or pushed back to an imaginary beginning , with the honorary title of First Cause - honorary ...
So the belief in universal law led modern science to complete determinism . Miracles were not to happen . The gods were either eliminated or pushed back to an imaginary beginning , with the honorary title of First Cause - honorary ...
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Contents
The Harmony of the Spheres 1930 | 14 |
The Unwritten Philosophy 1935 | 28 |
Platos Commonwealth 1935 | 47 |
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| Title | The Unwritten Philosophy and Other Essays |
| Author | Francis Macdonald Cornford |
| Editor | William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
| Contributor | William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
| Publisher | University Press, 1950 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 138 pages |
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