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... the kinship of all living things , is the fundamental principle ; and we cannot dismiss the notion that it is based on some genuine psychological experience , merely because we do not believe in transmigration and are not poets .
... the kinship of all living things , is the fundamental principle ; and we cannot dismiss the notion that it is based on some genuine psychological experience , merely because we do not believe in transmigration and are not poets .
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This image of a single living divine stuff was not , so far as we know , a traditional representation in Ionia , imposed by authority . I do not see how to avoid falling back on the second alternative , offered by modern psychology .
This image of a single living divine stuff was not , so far as we know , a traditional representation in Ionia , imposed by authority . I do not see how to avoid falling back on the second alternative , offered by modern psychology .
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The body is no better than a temporary prison - house or tomb of the living soul , thus grossly closed in the muddy vesture of decay . From this follows the unity of all life : there is a bond of a kinship uniting man to the gods above ...
The body is no better than a temporary prison - house or tomb of the living soul , thus grossly closed in the muddy vesture of decay . From this follows the unity of all life : there is a bond of a kinship uniting man to the gods above ...
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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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