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... sometimes itinerant 105-113 Summary and conclusions ... 113-115 LECTURE V. CHRISTIANITY AND GREEK PHILOSOPHY . Abstract ideas among the Greeks , who were hardly aware of the different degrees of precision possible in mathematics and ...
... sometimes itinerant 105-113 Summary and conclusions ... 113-115 LECTURE V. CHRISTIANITY AND GREEK PHILOSOPHY . Abstract ideas among the Greeks , who were hardly aware of the different degrees of precision possible in mathematics and ...
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... sometimes been thought that those early years are the most important years in the education of all of us . We learn then , we hardly know how , through effort and struggle and inno- cent mistakes , to use our eyes and our ears , to ...
... sometimes been thought that those early years are the most important years in the education of all of us . We learn then , we hardly know how , through effort and struggle and inno- cent mistakes , to use our eyes and our ears , to ...
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... sometimes into morasses where there is no foothold , and into ravines from which there is no issue . But the science is marching on . " Vestigia nulla retrorsum . " It marches , as the physical sciences have marched , with the firm ...
... sometimes into morasses where there is no foothold , and into ravines from which there is no issue . But the science is marching on . " Vestigia nulla retrorsum . " It marches , as the physical sciences have marched , with the firm ...
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... Sometimes he had the use of the professor's library ; 1 and though writ- ing in his native language , he had to construct his periods according to rules of art , and to avoid all words for which an authority could not be quoted , just ...
... Sometimes he had the use of the professor's library ; 1 and though writ- ing in his native language , he had to construct his periods according to rules of art , and to avoid all words for which an authority could not be quoted , just ...
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... sometimes he gave a discourse of his own . Sometimes a student read an essay of his own , or interpreted a passage of a philosopher , in the presence of the professor , and the professor afterwards pronounced his opinion upon the ...
... sometimes he gave a discourse of his own . Sometimes a student read an essay of his own , or interpreted a passage of a philosopher , in the presence of the professor , and the professor afterwards pronounced his opinion upon the ...
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Page xxiv - The Sermon on the Mount is the promulgation of a new law of conduct; it assumes beliefs rather than formulates them ; the theological conceptions which underlie it belong to the ethical rather than the speculative side of theology; metaphysics are wholly absent. The Nicene Creed is a statement partly of historical facts and partly of dogmatic inferences ; the metaphysical terms which it contains would probably have been unintelligible to the first disciples ; ethics have no place in it. The one belongs...
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