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Page 92
... reference to the past , ought to be regarded as best for the future . For if you had done all that your duty demanded , and yet your affairs were no better , you would not have even a hope left you that further improvement is possible ...
... reference to the past , ought to be regarded as best for the future . For if you had done all that your duty demanded , and yet your affairs were no better , you would not have even a hope left you that further improvement is possible ...
Page 97
... reference to them ; which has been the prac- tice hitherto ; the understanding being not only carried that way by a natural impulse , but also by the use of syllogistic demonstration trained and inured to it . But then , and then only ...
... reference to them ; which has been the prac- tice hitherto ; the understanding being not only carried that way by a natural impulse , but also by the use of syllogistic demonstration trained and inured to it . But then , and then only ...
Page 120
... reference to the latent process leading to the form ) are but slight and superficial , and contribute little , if anything , to true and active science . Nor have I forgotten that in a former passage I noted and corrected as an error of ...
... reference to the latent process leading to the form ) are but slight and superficial , and contribute little , if anything , to true and active science . Nor have I forgotten that in a former passage I noted and corrected as an error of ...
Page 126
... reference to the common and ordinary course of nature , not to her eternal and fundamental laws ) constitute Physics . And to these let there be subordinate two practical divisions to Physics , Mechanics ; to Metaphysics , what ( in a ...
... reference to the common and ordinary course of nature , not to her eternal and fundamental laws ) constitute Physics . And to these let there be subordinate two practical divisions to Physics , Mechanics ; to Metaphysics , what ( in a ...
Page 137
... reference to man from the thing in refer- ence to the universe ; it necessarily follows that no nature can be taken as the true form , unless it always decrease when the nature in question decreases , and in like manner always in ...
... reference to man from the thing in refer- ence to the universe ; it necessarily follows that no nature can be taken as the true form , unless it always decrease when the nature in question decreases , and in like manner always in ...
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