North-American Review and Miscellaneous JournalUniversity of Northern Iowa, 1877 |
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Page 59
... Action , of course , - human action ; not a mere piece cut from that endless string of actions which we call history , nor a succession of such small doings as constitute the events of private life . The actors of history are princes ...
... Action , of course , - human action ; not a mere piece cut from that endless string of actions which we call history , nor a succession of such small doings as constitute the events of private life . The actors of history are princes ...
Page 92
... action of physical forces appears to be substituted for the direct action of the Deity . This has , indeed , been a very common objection to theories which enlarge and de- fine what is called the action of secondary causes , but it has ...
... action of physical forces appears to be substituted for the direct action of the Deity . This has , indeed , been a very common objection to theories which enlarge and de- fine what is called the action of secondary causes , but it has ...
Page 93
... action ; we certainly have not " substituted " any other kind of action for it . And what is thus obvious in this simple astronomical example is equally true in principle in every case whatever in which one set of phenomena is ...
... action ; we certainly have not " substituted " any other kind of action for it . And what is thus obvious in this simple astronomical example is equally true in principle in every case whatever in which one set of phenomena is ...
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