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... absolute or perfect truth . Again , we are made for feeling and action as well as for knowing truth ; and usually we may be conscious of a principle quite clearly enough to act upon it safely , while we are in doubt or confusion when we ...
... absolute or perfect truth . Again , we are made for feeling and action as well as for knowing truth ; and usually we may be conscious of a principle quite clearly enough to act upon it safely , while we are in doubt or confusion when we ...
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... giving up the principle of absolute or infallible dogma , so that no authority outside the soul seems to be needed . But he rejects the dogmatic principle , not in favour of our principle that doctrines 108 JAMES MARTINEAU .
... giving up the principle of absolute or infallible dogma , so that no authority outside the soul seems to be needed . But he rejects the dogmatic principle , not in favour of our principle that doctrines 108 JAMES MARTINEAU .
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... Evolution and " Natural Selection " are two very different things . The latter is thought to be one of the natural causes which brought about Evolution . some may retain their character of absolute surprise , for 114 JAMES MARTINEAU .
... Evolution and " Natural Selection " are two very different things . The latter is thought to be one of the natural causes which brought about Evolution . some may retain their character of absolute surprise , for 114 JAMES MARTINEAU .
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... absolute surprise , for which there was and could be nothing to prepare us ; while others may prove to be , like an unsuspected pro- perty of a geometrical figure , only a new grouping of data and relations already in hand.1 There are ...
... absolute surprise , for which there was and could be nothing to prepare us ; while others may prove to be , like an unsuspected pro- perty of a geometrical figure , only a new grouping of data and relations already in hand.1 There are ...
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... absolute surprise , for which there was and could be nothing to prepare us " in the previous conditions . Dr Martineau has pointed out two of these " hitches in the evolutionary deduction " : the appearance of sentience and the ...
... absolute surprise , for which there was and could be nothing to prepare us " in the previous conditions . Dr Martineau has pointed out two of these " hitches in the evolutionary deduction " : the appearance of sentience and the ...
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