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... universe to a dust of atoms and the atoms themselves to electrical charges - but let us that are of purer fire Imitate the starry quire . The sentimental reply is just as superficial as the brutal objection and more contemptible ...
... universe to a dust of atoms and the atoms themselves to electrical charges - but let us that are of purer fire Imitate the starry quire . The sentimental reply is just as superficial as the brutal objection and more contemptible ...
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... universe , just as this fact or that principle would . He trusts his temperament . Wanting a universe that suits it , he believes in any representation of the universe that does suit it . He feels men of opposite temper to be out of key ...
... universe , just as this fact or that principle would . He trusts his temperament . Wanting a universe that suits it , he believes in any representation of the universe that does suit it . He feels men of opposite temper to be out of key ...
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... universe.1 Nor is it fair to say that it was rejected by idealists like Plato for motives of self- interest or class interest . Plato incorporated a revised form of atomism in his own account of the constitution of matter . But it ...
... universe.1 Nor is it fair to say that it was rejected by idealists like Plato for motives of self- interest or class interest . Plato incorporated a revised form of atomism in his own account of the constitution of matter . But it ...
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The Harmony of the Spheres 1930 | 14 |
The Unwritten Philosophy 1935 | 31 |
Platos Commonwealth 1935 | 47 |
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