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... Reason , the idol of Hobbes and the freethinkers of the Age . Hence they are in some measure a recantation , a turning - back of Rochester on himself . " Reason , " naked rationality , has led Man only to misery , and Rochester sees the ...
... Reason , the idol of Hobbes and the freethinkers of the Age . Hence they are in some measure a recantation , a turning - back of Rochester on himself . " Reason , " naked rationality , has led Man only to misery , and Rochester sees the ...
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Martin Tucker. nation of wit but defends reason . ( 5 ) According to the author man is presumptuous to reason about himself in terms of the Infinite ; ( 6 ) reason concerns itself with nonsense and impossibilities ; ( 7 ) the only value ...
Martin Tucker. nation of wit but defends reason . ( 5 ) According to the author man is presumptuous to reason about himself in terms of the Infinite ; ( 6 ) reason concerns itself with nonsense and impossibilities ; ( 7 ) the only value ...
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... reason " and of their “ de- votion to reason ( i.e. , to reason alone ) . " ... But this is neither Swift nor Gulliver . More than once Gulliver remarks , and Ehrenpreis quotes ( and misinterprets ) him as saying , " Reason alone is ...
... reason " and of their “ de- votion to reason ( i.e. , to reason alone ) . " ... But this is neither Swift nor Gulliver . More than once Gulliver remarks , and Ehrenpreis quotes ( and misinterprets ) him as saying , " Reason alone is ...
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