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... we need an insight , penetrating through the confused play of outward events into the reality of men and things , into the deep C thoughts which are the controlling motives underlying even the apparent LIGHT ON THE WAY . 33.
... we need an insight , penetrating through the confused play of outward events into the reality of men and things , into the deep C thoughts which are the controlling motives underlying even the apparent LIGHT ON THE WAY . 33.
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... reality it is this progressive life of humanity which penetrates and partly creates his individual personality , with all its habits of thought and feeling . A great spiritual heritage has come down to us . We know that it is a growth ...
... reality it is this progressive life of humanity which penetrates and partly creates his individual personality , with all its habits of thought and feeling . A great spiritual heritage has come down to us . We know that it is a growth ...
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... realities ; the soundest kind of reasoning was that which began with facts ; and the most real fact , from which we cannot get away , with which we must always start and to which we must ever return , was that infinite machine which we ...
... realities ; the soundest kind of reasoning was that which began with facts ; and the most real fact , from which we cannot get away , with which we must always start and to which we must ever return , was that infinite machine which we ...
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... reality of the " infallible " guide is , I think , too feeble to be intelligibly summarised.1 No doubt such an infallible authority , guiding the progress of Thought , would have been and would still be very useful ; but we can scarcely ...
... reality of the " infallible " guide is , I think , too feeble to be intelligibly summarised.1 No doubt such an infallible authority , guiding the progress of Thought , would have been and would still be very useful ; but we can scarcely ...
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... . viction that we have hold The settled con- of the truth and can give some reasons for it is sufficient evidence that we have hold of it in reality . The test of firm belief , that we cannot think 96 NEWMAN'S 6 GRAMMAR OF ASSENT . '
... . viction that we have hold The settled con- of the truth and can give some reasons for it is sufficient evidence that we have hold of it in reality . The test of firm belief , that we cannot think 96 NEWMAN'S 6 GRAMMAR OF ASSENT . '
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