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... highest importance . For Greece is in everything the starting - point of modern civilization . Homer is not more the fountain - head of Western poetry , than Socrates of Western philosophy . Allowing as much as we will to Semitic and ...
... highest importance . For Greece is in everything the starting - point of modern civilization . Homer is not more the fountain - head of Western poetry , than Socrates of Western philosophy . Allowing as much as we will to Semitic and ...
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... highest aspirations and discoveries in regard to the duty , the hopes , and the destiny of man . And thus there is a freshness and a completeness about the ethics of the Ancients which we seek in vain in the Moderns . Even if it were ...
... highest aspirations and discoveries in regard to the duty , the hopes , and the destiny of man . And thus there is a freshness and a completeness about the ethics of the Ancients which we seek in vain in the Moderns . Even if it were ...
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... highest potency fire , rather than to stop at the intermediate stage of air . But the point of main interest with him was not the original substance , but the process , the everlasting movement upwards and downwards , fire ( including ...
... highest potency fire , rather than to stop at the intermediate stage of air . But the point of main interest with him was not the original substance , but the process , the everlasting movement upwards and downwards , fire ( including ...
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... highest repute for wisdom ; accordingly he went to statesmen and poets and orators , and last of all to craftsmen , but every- where met with the same response : none really knew what were the true ends of life , but each one fancied ...
... highest repute for wisdom ; accordingly he went to statesmen and poets and orators , and last of all to craftsmen , but every- where met with the same response : none really knew what were the true ends of life , but each one fancied ...
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... highest object of knowledge , with the Absolute One of Parmenides , denying the existence of Evil . Antisthenes , the founder of the Cynic and in- directly of the Stoic school , was the caricature of the ascetic and unconventional side ...
... highest object of knowledge , with the Absolute One of Parmenides , denying the existence of Evil . Antisthenes , the founder of the Cynic and in- directly of the Stoic school , was the caricature of the ascetic and unconventional side ...
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