Religious and Moral Ideas in the Novels of George EliotUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1963 - 398 pages |
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... nature to perform miracles on man's behalf . Spinoza confirmed the views that Eliot had already found in Hennell , Strauss and Bray . He also made some positive contributions to the development of her ethics . The motive that led ...
... nature to perform miracles on man's behalf . Spinoza confirmed the views that Eliot had already found in Hennell , Strauss and Bray . He also made some positive contributions to the development of her ethics . The motive that led ...
Page 52
... nature purified , freed from the limits of the individual man , made ob- jective -- i . e . contemplated and revered as another , a distinct being . All the attributes of the divine nature are , therefore , attributes of the human nature ...
... nature purified , freed from the limits of the individual man , made ob- jective -- i . e . contemplated and revered as another , a distinct being . All the attributes of the divine nature are , therefore , attributes of the human nature ...
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... nature . Philip Wakem rightly points out to her : ... ..you are shutting yourself up in a narrow self- delusive fanaticism , which is only a way of escaping pain by starving into dullness all the highest powers of your nature . Joy and ...
... nature . Philip Wakem rightly points out to her : ... ..you are shutting yourself up in a narrow self- delusive fanaticism , which is only a way of escaping pain by starving into dullness all the highest powers of your nature . Joy and ...
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