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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 .
Page 45
If I may take these statements for granted without detailed proof , the point is that these abstract conceptions , which are for the most part tacitly assumed as the common property of a whole culture , entail religious and ...
If I may take these statements for granted without detailed proof , the point is that these abstract conceptions , which are for the most part tacitly assumed as the common property of a whole culture , entail religious and ...
Page 52
At the same time the whole fabric of law and custom was going from bad to worse at an alarming rate . The result was that I , who had at first been full of eagerness to take part in public life , when I saw all this happening and ...
At the same time the whole fabric of law and custom was going from bad to worse at an alarming rate . The result was that I , who had at first been full of eagerness to take part in public life , when I saw all this happening and ...
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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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