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Human beings, confined within a circle of knowledge which may be tested by
observation or experiment, feel as if they were ... if accessible at all, only to a kind
of perception for which the everyday faculties of humanity are singularly unsuited.
Human beings, confined within a circle of knowledge which may be tested by
observation or experiment, feel as if they were ... if accessible at all, only to a kind
of perception for which the everyday faculties of humanity are singularly unsuited.
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The nature of a fact does not necessarily determine a man's ' attitude towards it ;
the same facts may consequently be valued variously , and may change their
human significance with such a change of valuation . Thus ' valuing is creating , '
as ...
The nature of a fact does not necessarily determine a man's ' attitude towards it ;
the same facts may consequently be valued variously , and may change their
human significance with such a change of valuation . Thus ' valuing is creating , '
as ...
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It is only necessary to say truth is human , of course , knowledge is active , and a
condition of life and power , and not a passive receptivity of ' impressions and the
reflecting of an alien reality . Very well then , so much the better , and thank God ...
It is only necessary to say truth is human , of course , knowledge is active , and a
condition of life and power , and not a passive receptivity of ' impressions and the
reflecting of an alien reality . Very well then , so much the better , and thank God ...
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The Russian Stage 3 The Study of Eugenics 4 The Novet in The Ring and the Book 5 The London Stock Exchange 6 Maurice Barrès 7 French Renai... | 1 |
Roman History since Mommsen | 2 |
The Isolation of Theology | 3 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, 218. köide |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1913 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 okt. 2005 |
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