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... teach- ings , while differing widely , throw much light on each other and on the great problem already named . The author was led to his main position by perceiving the need of reconciling the two methods of Theism which are usually ...
... teach- ings , while differing widely , throw much light on each other and on the great problem already named . The author was led to his main position by perceiving the need of reconciling the two methods of Theism which are usually ...
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... teachings of Jesus gave them . We must remember that it was a real power , which many of them gained for the first time . This is true , notwithstanding the numbers of " perverts " who at the first sign of persecution hastened to ...
... teachings of Jesus gave them . We must remember that it was a real power , which many of them gained for the first time . This is true , notwithstanding the numbers of " perverts " who at the first sign of persecution hastened to ...
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... teaching of Aristotle . First is placed the Ideal of Truth or the rational comprehension of things , the Ideal of man's intellectual consciousness as such . This is made of supreme worth ; the life of ordinary virtue has value only as ...
... teaching of Aristotle . First is placed the Ideal of Truth or the rational comprehension of things , the Ideal of man's intellectual consciousness as such . This is made of supreme worth ; the life of ordinary virtue has value only as ...
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... teaching that we are members one of another , that man cannot live to himself alone . Yet the idea of applying this , outside the limits of the State , was far from their thought ; and within , it had little effect on the moral and ...
... teaching that we are members one of another , that man cannot live to himself alone . Yet the idea of applying this , outside the limits of the State , was far from their thought ; and within , it had little effect on the moral and ...
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... teaching . Plato had laid stress on the greatness of the difference between the ideal or divine world , where eternal Truth and Beauty dwell , and the world of things that we can touch and see ; and on the greatness of the difference be ...
... teaching . Plato had laid stress on the greatness of the difference between the ideal or divine world , where eternal Truth and Beauty dwell , and the world of things that we can touch and see ; and on the greatness of the difference be ...
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