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... hold on the present , proves not to be true of the past . Mere observers of evil do not describe the evil accurately or vividly enough ; the points may be correct , but the impression is false ; for want of light , we do not feel the ...
... hold on the present , proves not to be true of the past . Mere observers of evil do not describe the evil accurately or vividly enough ; the points may be correct , but the impression is false ; for want of light , we do not feel the ...
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... hold of the heart of the people , for it solved no one difficulty which was perplexing them ; it affirmed a truth which staggered them , and before which they bowed ; one , however , which in this form coalesced with scarcely any ...
... hold of the heart of the people , for it solved no one difficulty which was perplexing them ; it affirmed a truth which staggered them , and before which they bowed ; one , however , which in this form coalesced with scarcely any ...
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... hold the Reality . This is surely Theism in its highest form and conception . It is something much more than we are wont to mean by that word , for by a Deist or Theist we often describe a person who does not deny the existence of God ...
... hold the Reality . This is surely Theism in its highest form and conception . It is something much more than we are wont to mean by that word , for by a Deist or Theist we often describe a person who does not deny the existence of God ...
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... holds that he may be the spring and soul of Order to the commonwealth . How he may be so he is to enquire very diligently . All the func- tionaries of government are to be chosen accord- ing to their fitness to preserve that order , ac ...
... holds that he may be the spring and soul of Order to the commonwealth . How he may be so he is to enquire very diligently . All the func- tionaries of government are to be chosen accord- ing to their fitness to preserve that order , ac ...
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... hold of popular sympathy and has retained that sympathy to the present day . It was and is despised by the great mandarins , by the functionaries of government , by the adorers of social order . But it is more than tolerated by the ...
... hold of popular sympathy and has retained that sympathy to the present day . It was and is despised by the great mandarins , by the functionaries of government , by the adorers of social order . But it is more than tolerated by the ...
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