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... speculations are worthy of a moment's attention from us. For what is really interesting to man, save men, and God, the Father of men? In the year 331 B.C. one of the greatest intellects whose influence the world has ever felt, saw, with ...
... speculations are worthy of a moment's attention from us. For what is really interesting to man, save men, and God, the Father of men? In the year 331 B.C. one of the greatest intellects whose influence the world has ever felt, saw, with ...
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... speculations; in which, deserting his inductive method, he has fallen below himself into the popular cacoethes, and Pythagorean deductive dreams about the mysterious powers of numbers, and of the regular solids. Such a people, when they ...
... speculations; in which, deserting his inductive method, he has fallen below himself into the popular cacoethes, and Pythagorean deductive dreams about the mysterious powers of numbers, and of the regular solids. Such a people, when they ...
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