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... human soul , may be per- haps both useful and interesting . And , in pursuance of our theme , we may note first , the singular fact , that the original impulse to the Civilization of any given Čom- munity comes ever from abroad ...
... human soul , may be per- haps both useful and interesting . And , in pursuance of our theme , we may note first , the singular fact , that the original impulse to the Civilization of any given Čom- munity comes ever from abroad ...
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... human development . Among these , a prominent place is held by the wants and desires of our common nature . These all crave satisfaction , and , to obtain it , put in motion the intellect through all its departments , and so work out ...
... human development . Among these , a prominent place is held by the wants and desires of our common nature . These all crave satisfaction , and , to obtain it , put in motion the intellect through all its departments , and so work out ...
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... human frame , running the blind round of the life - current through even its scarce visible channels , and threading , one by one , those inconceivably delicate fibres , which spread their tracery through and around every portion of ...
... human frame , running the blind round of the life - current through even its scarce visible channels , and threading , one by one , those inconceivably delicate fibres , which spread their tracery through and around every portion of ...
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... human life . To this peculiar religion may be traced also the characteristic features of Oriental Art ; its Architec- tural piles so vast and colossal , as to move wonder even in this , the very age of Mechanism ; its gigantic and ...
... human life . To this peculiar religion may be traced also the characteristic features of Oriental Art ; its Architec- tural piles so vast and colossal , as to move wonder even in this , the very age of Mechanism ; its gigantic and ...
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... Humanity . Sculpture and Painting find their chief occupation in representing the human form , and depicting the ' hu- man face divine ; and Architecture , instead of issuing from an imagi- nation overborne and crushed by conceptions of ...
... Humanity . Sculpture and Painting find their chief occupation in representing the human form , and depicting the ' hu- man face divine ; and Architecture , instead of issuing from an imagi- nation overborne and crushed by conceptions of ...
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