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... means , whereby it was borne onward to the triumphs and blessings of a fully civilized state . This point is illustrated by the most familiar passages of History . Our earliest knowledge of Greece , the primal source of illumination to ...
... means , whereby it was borne onward to the triumphs and blessings of a fully civilized state . This point is illustrated by the most familiar passages of History . Our earliest knowledge of Greece , the primal source of illumination to ...
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... means exerting an agency in the process of 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 ...
... means exerting an agency in the process of 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 ...
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... means furnished by the Creator in the worlds of matter and of thought , tend to develope man's capacities , and accomplish the work of human Civilization . And how marvellous the spectacle ! Out of a few simple elements mingled in man's ...
... means furnished by the Creator in the worlds of matter and of thought , tend to develope man's capacities , and accomplish the work of human Civilization . And how marvellous the spectacle ! Out of a few simple elements mingled in man's ...
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... means and materials furnished to his hand . That the inhabitants of the Tropics should differ from those of the Polar regions , and the dwellers in the Tem- perate zones from both , in manners , ways of life , and general cha- racter ...
... means and materials furnished to his hand . That the inhabitants of the Tropics should differ from those of the Polar regions , and the dwellers in the Tem- perate zones from both , in manners , ways of life , and general cha- racter ...
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... means which could effect little or nothing , are enabled , when combined , to work results that seem rather like magic than sober reality . The denizens of the ' land of the cypress and myrtle , ' and the dingy tribes of the far Isles ...
... means which could effect little or nothing , are enabled , when combined , to work results that seem rather like magic than sober reality . The denizens of the ' land of the cypress and myrtle , ' and the dingy tribes of the far Isles ...
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