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Page 14
... higher and better than himself ; to believe in a Being of moral perfection whose justice and good- ness are undisturbed by human passions ; who gives authority to that voice which man finds in himself , reviewing his own conduct , and ...
... higher and better than himself ; to believe in a Being of moral perfection whose justice and good- ness are undisturbed by human passions ; who gives authority to that voice which man finds in himself , reviewing his own conduct , and ...
Page 15
... higher in the scale of creation than the beasts of the field , who are condemned with downward eye ever to contemplate the world beneath , and know nothing of the glories of the heavens and of the distant worlds they reveal . Is it not ...
... higher in the scale of creation than the beasts of the field , who are condemned with downward eye ever to contemplate the world beneath , and know nothing of the glories of the heavens and of the distant worlds they reveal . Is it not ...
Page 17
... higher mathematical level than himself to convince him that in attacking these problems he was spending his labour in vain . The same thing may be said of the algebraic solution of the higher equations : the thing has not been done ...
... higher mathematical level than himself to convince him that in attacking these problems he was spending his labour in vain . The same thing may be said of the algebraic solution of the higher equations : the thing has not been done ...
Page 67
... higher part of his nature , and that not to have felt them would indicate that some part of his consti- tution was either defective or had not been properly cultivated . A philosophy which ignores such facts or treats them as illusions ...
... higher part of his nature , and that not to have felt them would indicate that some part of his consti- tution was either defective or had not been properly cultivated . A philosophy which ignores such facts or treats them as illusions ...
Page 71
... higher and nobler than the objects of sense , deserving of our love and affections , is a conviction that can only be preserved by acting in conformity with it , and honestly following where it leads us . It is only by habitual affec ...
... higher and nobler than the objects of sense , deserving of our love and affections , is a conviction that can only be preserved by acting in conformity with it , and honestly following where it leads us . It is only by habitual affec ...
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