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... Metaphysical schools of Alexandria , it may be better , perhaps , to define the meaning of those two epithets . Physical , we shall all agree , means that which belongs to puois ; natura ; nature ; that which puerai , nascitur , grows ...
... Metaphysical schools of Alexandria , it may be better , perhaps , to define the meaning of those two epithets . Physical , we shall all agree , means that which belongs to puois ; natura ; nature ; that which puerai , nascitur , grows ...
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... Metaphysics , named his treatise so only on account of its following in philosophic sequence his book on Physics . But , according to these ... metaphysic things which are imperish- NATIONS ARE SPIRITUAL SOCIETIES . 3 able and immoveable and.
... Metaphysics , named his treatise so only on account of its following in philosophic sequence his book on Physics . But , according to these ... metaphysic things which are imperish- NATIONS ARE SPIRITUAL SOCIETIES . 3 able and immoveable and.
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... place among the things which are born to die , only by breaking the law which God had appointed for it ; so fulfilling , in its own case , St. Paul's great words , that 4 . METAPHYSIC IN EVERY MAN . death entered into.
... place among the things which are born to die , only by breaking the law which God had appointed for it ; so fulfilling , in its own case , St. Paul's great words , that 4 . METAPHYSIC IN EVERY MAN . death entered into.
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... metaphysic enough to be learnt in that , or any city of three hundred thousand inhabitants , even though it had never contained lecture - room or philosopher's chair , and had never heard the names of Aristotle and Plato . Metaphysic ...
... metaphysic enough to be learnt in that , or any city of three hundred thousand inhabitants , even though it had never contained lecture - room or philosopher's chair , and had never heard the names of Aristotle and Plato . Metaphysic ...
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... metaphysic schools " of Alexandria , to have tried as well as I could to make you understand how the whole vast phenomenon grew up , and supported a peculiar life of its own , for fifteen hundred years and more , and was felt to be the ...
... metaphysic schools " of Alexandria , to have tried as well as I could to make you understand how the whole vast phenomenon grew up , and supported a peculiar life of its own , for fifteen hundred years and more , and was felt to be the ...
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