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... nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom . Nor do I confine the history to Bodies ; but I have thought it my duty besides to make a separate history of such Virtues as may be ...
... nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom . Nor do I confine the history to Bodies ; but I have thought it my duty besides to make a separate history of such Virtues as may be ...
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... nature : what he does and what he knows is only what he has observed of nature's order in fact or in thought ; beyond this he knows nothing and can do nothing . For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken , nor can ...
... nature : what he does and what he knows is only what he has observed of nature's order in fact or in thought ; beyond this he knows nothing and can do nothing . For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken , nor can ...
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... NATURE AND THE KINGDOM OF MAN . APHORISM I. MAN , being the servant and interpreter of Nature , can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature : beyond this he neither ...
... NATURE AND THE KINGDOM OF MAN . APHORISM I. MAN , being the servant and interpreter of Nature , can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature : beyond this he neither ...
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... nature , I call for the sake of distinction Anticipations of Nature ( as a thing rash or premature ) . That reason which is elicited from facts by a just and methodical process , I call Interpretation of Nature . XXVII . Anticipations ...
... nature , I call for the sake of distinction Anticipations of Nature ( as a thing rash or premature ) . That reason which is elicited from facts by a just and methodical process , I call Interpretation of Nature . XXVII . Anticipations ...
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... nature of things by mingling its own nature with it . XLII . The Idols of the Cave are the idols of the individual man . For every one ( besides the errors common to human nature in general ) has a cave or den of his own , which ...
... nature of things by mingling its own nature with it . XLII . The Idols of the Cave are the idols of the individual man . For every one ( besides the errors common to human nature in general ) has a cave or den of his own , which ...
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