The Contemporary Review, 37. köideA. Strahan, 1880 |
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... higher culture . But the fashionable romantic school are the very élite of the cultured class . The whole movement emanated from Oxford , and it finds the readiest response in the highest spheres . It began in the Church under the name ...
... higher culture . But the fashionable romantic school are the very élite of the cultured class . The whole movement emanated from Oxford , and it finds the readiest response in the highest spheres . It began in the Church under the name ...
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... higher tone and greater moral seriousness into the conduct of the State , but this was accom- panied by an amount of staginess very un - English , and from which their Never were the men who served predecessors had been altogether 4 THE ...
... higher tone and greater moral seriousness into the conduct of the State , but this was accom- panied by an amount of staginess very un - English , and from which their Never were the men who served predecessors had been altogether 4 THE ...
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... higher morality , became characteristic of her political life . As a statesman , Walpole had also great negative virtues . " It is the fault of many writers of history , " Lecky shrewdly observes , " and the misfortune of many statesmen ...
... higher morality , became characteristic of her political life . As a statesman , Walpole had also great negative virtues . " It is the fault of many writers of history , " Lecky shrewdly observes , " and the misfortune of many statesmen ...
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... higher forms . The lowest stage is the physical ; from that there is advance to the biological ; the next advance brings us to the psychological ; and thence we are brought to the sociological . Restricting attention here to conduct ...
... higher forms . The lowest stage is the physical ; from that there is advance to the biological ; the next advance brings us to the psychological ; and thence we are brought to the sociological . Restricting attention here to conduct ...
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... higher structure and functions belonging to man . The evolutionist has to cut his way through a thicket of perplexities in attempting to make good this position . The test of the scheme must be found in generally recognised ethical ...
... higher structure and functions belonging to man . The evolutionist has to cut his way through a thicket of perplexities in attempting to make good this position . The test of the scheme must be found in generally recognised ethical ...
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