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... means the universal rule that progress shows itself by the result ; the statement of the ques- tion is often more important than the answer . The prob- lem is more sharply defined in a given direction ; or it be- comes more ...
... means the universal rule that progress shows itself by the result ; the statement of the ques- tion is often more important than the answer . The prob- lem is more sharply defined in a given direction ; or it be- comes more ...
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... means for attaining it . Thus the thirst for knowl- edge raises questions concerning the method , the instru- ments , and the limits of knowledge ; the interest in noëtics and methodology vigorously develops , remains a constant factor ...
... means for attaining it . Thus the thirst for knowl- edge raises questions concerning the method , the instru- ments , and the limits of knowledge ; the interest in noëtics and methodology vigorously develops , remains a constant factor ...
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... means merely a primal , germinal condition , never , as in Leibnitz , the return thereto ) * The attention of our philosopher was called to the natural sciences , and thus also to geography , which at this time was springing into new ...
... means merely a primal , germinal condition , never , as in Leibnitz , the return thereto ) * The attention of our philosopher was called to the natural sciences , and thus also to geography , which at this time was springing into new ...
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... means that which makes bodies liquid , sulfur , that which makes them combustible , sal , that which makes them fixed and rigid . From these are com- pounded the four elements , each of which is ruled by elemental spirits - earth by ...
... means that which makes bodies liquid , sulfur , that which makes them combustible , sal , that which makes them fixed and rigid . From these are com- pounded the four elements , each of which is ruled by elemental spirits - earth by ...
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... means takes the first place . All organisms are composed of minute elements , called minima or monads ; each monad is a mirror of the All ; each at once corporeal and soul - like , matter and form , each eternal ; their combinations ...
... means takes the first place . All organisms are composed of minute elements , called minima or monads ; each monad is a mirror of the All ; each at once corporeal and soul - like , matter and form , each eternal ; their combinations ...
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Page 243 - Even if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him, so Voltaire said — 'si dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait 1'inventer.
Page 570 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Page 565 - If two or more instances in which the phenomenon occurs have only one circumstance in common, while two or more instances in which it does not occur have nothing in common save the absence of that circumstance, the circumstance in which alone the two sets of instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon.
Page 564 - ... a series of feelings which is aware of itself as past and future; and we are reduced to the alternative of believing that the mind, or Ego, is something different from any series of feelings, or possibilities of them, or of accepting the paradox that something which ex hypothesi is but a series of feelings, can be aware of itself as a series.
Page 117 - Of God, (2) Of the Nature and Origin of the Mind, (3) Of the Origin and Nature of the Affects, (4) Of Human Bondage, or of the Strength of the Affects, (5) Of the Power of the Intellect, or of Human Liberty. By BENEDICT DE SPINOZA. Translated from the Latin by WILLIAM HALE WHITE, los.
Page 576 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Page 71 - A man that hath no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in others; for men's minds will either feed upon their own good, or upon others...
Page 71 - I CANNOT call Riches better than the baggage of virtue. The Roman word is better, im-pedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue. It cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march; yea and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory.
Page 236 - that the thoughts of which I am conscious, are the thoughts of a being which I call myself, my mind, my person...
Page 378 - And thus the real does not contain more than the possible. A hundred real dollars do not contain a penny more than a hundred possible dollars.