Lay Sermons, Addresses, and ReviewsMacmillan and Company, 1870 - 378 pages |
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... thought , accompanied by a protest , from the philosophical side , against what is commonly called Materialism . result of my well - meant efforts I find to be , that I am generally credited with having invented " protoplasm ” in the ...
... thought , accompanied by a protest , from the philosophical side , against what is commonly called Materialism . result of my well - meant efforts I find to be , that I am generally credited with having invented " protoplasm ” in the ...
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... thought might necessitate an even greater expenditure of time and of energy than the acquirement of the " New Philosophy ; " but though such work engrossed the best intellects of Europe for a longer time than has elapsed since the great ...
... thought might necessitate an even greater expenditure of time and of energy than the acquirement of the " New Philosophy ; " but though such work engrossed the best intellects of Europe for a longer time than has elapsed since the great ...
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... thought , knitting for her children . Now stockings are good and comfortable things , and the children will undoubtedly be much the better for them ; but surely it would be short - sighted , to say the least of it , to depreciate this ...
... thought , knitting for her children . Now stockings are good and comfortable things , and the children will undoubtedly be much the better for them ; but surely it would be short - sighted , to say the least of it , to depreciate this ...
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... thought , and to become co - extensive with the range of knowledge ; if , as our race approaches its maturity , it discovers , as I be- lieve it will , that there is but one kind of knowledge and but one method of acquiring it ; then we ...
... thought , and to become co - extensive with the range of knowledge ; if , as our race approaches its maturity , it discovers , as I be- lieve it will , that there is but one kind of knowledge and but one method of acquiring it ; then we ...
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... thoughts and not by bites . The highest places in the hierarchy of civilization will assuredly not be within the reach of our dusky cousins , though it is by no means necessary that they should be restricted to the lowest . But whatever ...
... thoughts and not by bites . The highest places in the hierarchy of civilization will assuredly not be within the reach of our dusky cousins , though it is by no means necessary that they should be restricted to the lowest . But whatever ...
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