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... REASON RIGHTLY AND OF SEEKING SCIENTIFIC TRUTH . " ( An Address to the Cambridge Young Men's Christian Society , delivered on the 24th of March , 1870 , and subsequently published in Macmillan's Magazine ) 351 LAY SERMONS , ADDRESSES ...
... REASON RIGHTLY AND OF SEEKING SCIENTIFIC TRUTH . " ( An Address to the Cambridge Young Men's Christian Society , delivered on the 24th of March , 1870 , and subsequently published in Macmillan's Magazine ) 351 LAY SERMONS , ADDRESSES ...
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... reason to believe that it is the improvement of our faith , nor that of our morals , which keeps the plague from our city ; but , again , that it is the improvement of our natural knowledge . We have learned that pestilences will only ...
... reason to believe that it is the improvement of our faith , nor that of our morals , which keeps the plague from our city ; but , again , that it is the improvement of our natural knowledge . We have learned that pestilences will only ...
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... of thought which now infests us all , for such reward . But I venture to say that such views are contrary alike to reason and to fact . Those who discourse in such 1. ] ADVISABLENESS OF IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE . 13.
... of thought which now infests us all , for such reward . But I venture to say that such views are contrary alike to reason and to fact . Those who discourse in such 1. ] ADVISABLENESS OF IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE . 13.
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... reason of man first came face to face with the facts of Nature : when the savage first learned that the fingers of one hand are fewer than those of both ; that it is shorter to cross a stream than to head it ; that a stone stops where ...
... reason of man first came face to face with the facts of Nature : when the savage first learned that the fingers of one hand are fewer than those of both ; that it is shorter to cross a stream than to head it ; that a stone stops where ...
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... reason has no further duty . There are many excellent persons who yet hold by these principles , and it is not my present business , or intention , to discuss their views . All I wish to bring clearly before your minds is the ...
... reason has no further duty . There are many excellent persons who yet hold by these principles , and it is not my present business , or intention , to discuss their views . All I wish to bring clearly before your minds is the ...
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