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... virtue , and when so ordered they have a positive value , since they and not our weak reason are the forces which make it possible for us to act at all ; to wish to eradicate them from our nature is not only a futile but a on Universal ...
... virtue , and when so ordered they have a positive value , since they and not our weak reason are the forces which make it possible for us to act at all ; to wish to eradicate them from our nature is not only a futile but a on Universal ...
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... virtue which he had thus derived he found that the world did not furnish any examples of people who lived up to the definition , and thus it became an ob- vious deduction that , since all is vicious , even matters beneficial to us arise ...
... virtue which he had thus derived he found that the world did not furnish any examples of people who lived up to the definition , and thus it became an ob- vious deduction that , since all is vicious , even matters beneficial to us arise ...
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... virtue were such as could genuinely involve and provoke the thought of his day . The conclusion reached by Mandeville that all human action is at bottom vicious was attained by a psychological analysis of human original , and literal ...
... virtue were such as could genuinely involve and provoke the thought of his day . The conclusion reached by Mandeville that all human action is at bottom vicious was attained by a psychological analysis of human original , and literal ...
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The Beggars Opera | 14 |
The Authenticity of Anna Sewards Published Correspondence | 50 |
Suggestions toward a Genealogy of The Man of Feeling | 61 |
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