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... into the life of things ' and lose the sense of separate existence in a communion of feeling with the whole of nature , as if the daughters of Memory could free the soul from the limitations of space as well as from those of time .
... into the life of things ' and lose the sense of separate existence in a communion of feeling with the whole of nature , as if the daughters of Memory could free the soul from the limitations of space as well as from those of time .
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Take , as a simple instance , the notion of cosmogony — the becoming or beginning of existence of an ordered world . The abstract notion of becoming was still merged in the concrete image of birth : the words genesis , gignesthai ...
Take , as a simple instance , the notion of cosmogony — the becoming or beginning of existence of an ordered world . The abstract notion of becoming was still merged in the concrete image of birth : the words genesis , gignesthai ...
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To take Space : it is true that in the fifth century the Atomists asserted the existence of a void , in which an ... that sphere there can be neither something ( for all being is inside ) nor nothing ( for nothing cannot exist ) .
To take Space : it is true that in the fifth century the Atomists asserted the existence of a void , in which an ... that sphere there can be neither something ( for all being is inside ) nor nothing ( for nothing cannot exist ) .
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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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