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... physical law , to a description of the nature of the social change itself . Development will be ordered , regular and uniform , revealing no disruption or cataclysmic changes . Notions of universal physical law are here associated ...
... physical law , to a description of the nature of the social change itself . Development will be ordered , regular and uniform , revealing no disruption or cataclysmic changes . Notions of universal physical law are here associated ...
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... physical description takes on both moral and social implications . George Eliot's masterly study of Silas's growing isolation and alienation in Raveloe is based on the imagery of physical force . The effect of the movement of pity he ...
... physical description takes on both moral and social implications . George Eliot's masterly study of Silas's growing isolation and alienation in Raveloe is based on the imagery of physical force . The effect of the movement of pity he ...
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... physical being . Physiological psychology allows George Eliot to explore the disjunction between Silas's experience and that of the sur- rounding village life . The physical terms in fact reinforce the moral point of his social ...
... physical being . Physiological psychology allows George Eliot to explore the disjunction between Silas's experience and that of the sur- rounding village life . The physical terms in fact reinforce the moral point of his social ...
Contents
Contributors | 7 |
Introduction | 15 |
Nature as Ethical Norm in the Enlightenment | 51 |
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