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... human beings . The truth is that there is hardly a single point of excellence belonging to human character , which is not decidedly repugnant to the un- tutored feelings of human nature . If there be a virtue which more than any other ...
... human beings . The truth is that there is hardly a single point of excellence belonging to human character , which is not decidedly repugnant to the un- tutored feelings of human nature . If there be a virtue which more than any other ...
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... human nature is of this description . It falls far short of the standard of exactness now realized in Astronomy ; but there is.no reason that it should not be as much a science as Tidology is , or as Astronomy was when its calculations ...
... human nature is of this description . It falls far short of the standard of exactness now realized in Astronomy ; but there is.no reason that it should not be as much a science as Tidology is , or as Astronomy was when its calculations ...
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... human nature ( that is , from nature herself , in so far as we conceive of her as acting through man ) follows , even though it be necessarily , from human power . Hence the sanction of such laws may very well be said to depend on man's ...
... human nature ( that is , from nature herself , in so far as we conceive of her as acting through man ) follows , even though it be necessarily , from human power . Hence the sanction of such laws may very well be said to depend on man's ...
Contents
Euthyphro Plato | 3 |
Two Meditations René Descartes | 18 |
Democracy | 23 |
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