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... philo- sophy with theology , and so defiling , or at all events colouring , its pure transparency . There is no denying the imputation , as I shall show at greater length in my next Lecture . But one would have thought , looking back ...
... philo- sophy with theology , and so defiling , or at all events colouring , its pure transparency . There is no denying the imputation , as I shall show at greater length in my next Lecture . But one would have thought , looking back ...
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... fear- ful pages , not to have been exaggerated by the more compassionate , though more righteous Jew . And now observe , that this selfishness- this wholesome state of equilibrium - this philo- 64 " HOW SHALL A MAN SAVE HIS OWN SOUL.
... fear- ful pages , not to have been exaggerated by the more compassionate , though more righteous Jew . And now observe , that this selfishness- this wholesome state of equilibrium - this philo- 64 " HOW SHALL A MAN SAVE HIS OWN SOUL.
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... ; for these men had among them , and preserved faithfully enough for all practical purposes , the old literature of their race ; a lite- rature which I firmly believe , if I am to trust . PHILO THE JEW . 79 the experience of 1900 years.
... ; for these men had among them , and preserved faithfully enough for all practical purposes , the old literature of their race ; a lite- rature which I firmly believe , if I am to trust . PHILO THE JEW . 79 the experience of 1900 years.
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... them . And his announcement of this fact , weak and defective as it was , had the most enormous and unexpected results . The father of New Platonism was Philo the Jew . 4 1 LECTURE III . NEO - PLATONISM . WE now approach.
... them . And his announcement of this fact , weak and defective as it was , had the most enormous and unexpected results . The father of New Platonism was Philo the Jew . 4 1 LECTURE III . NEO - PLATONISM . WE now approach.
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... philo- sophic . And one can no more doubt that before writing them he had studied Philo , and was ex- panding Philo's thought in the direction which seemed fit to him , than we can doubt it of the earlier Neoplatonists . The technical ...
... philo- sophic . And one can no more doubt that before writing them he had studied Philo , and was ex- panding Philo's thought in the direction which seemed fit to him , than we can doubt it of the earlier Neoplatonists . The technical ...
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