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Does Lorenzo gain or lose by speculating upon the experience which Jessica is satisfied to enjoy , and spanning its depth with a structure of intellectual ' theory ? There may be more than one answer to the question .
Does Lorenzo gain or lose by speculating upon the experience which Jessica is satisfied to enjoy , and spanning its depth with a structure of intellectual ' theory ? There may be more than one answer to the question .
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For our purpose we may neglect that theory because it has not really penetrated the structure of our thoughts . Whatever mathematical physicists may say , we still imagine Time as a straight line reaching back without limit into the ...
For our purpose we may neglect that theory because it has not really penetrated the structure of our thoughts . Whatever mathematical physicists may say , we still imagine Time as a straight line reaching back without limit into the ...
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I venture to assert that no spectator , listening to Prometheus ' recital of the arts bestowed on man to alleviate his miserable condition , could possibly have associated those arts with the atomic theory or with any other Ionian ...
I venture to assert that no spectator , listening to Prometheus ' recital of the arts bestowed on man to alleviate his miserable condition , could possibly have associated those arts with the atomic theory or with any other Ionian ...
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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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