The Citizen of Nature: In Series of Letters from an American Indian in London to His Friend at Home |
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... acquire the knowledge of the stranger , and build cities like his ? Am not I made as one of them ? Surely the European and the Horse , the Indian and the Elk , sprung from one common Cause ? They tell me of things which my soul refuses ...
... acquire the knowledge of the stranger , and build cities like his ? Am not I made as one of them ? Surely the European and the Horse , the Indian and the Elk , sprung from one common Cause ? They tell me of things which my soul refuses ...
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... organization imperiously bids him seek ? that object which he thus instinctively seeks to acquire , is the maximum for which Nature calls him into existence , for which she commands him to live ; 24 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . LETTER V. ...
... organization imperiously bids him seek ? that object which he thus instinctively seeks to acquire , is the maximum for which Nature calls him into existence , for which she commands him to live ; 24 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . LETTER V. ...
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... acquired fortuitously , or through search , increased the aggregate joint stock of such his staple commodity ? " - " You ask , " said he , " a question of vast magnitude , of tremendous import , but it shall be answered : what you mean ...
... acquired fortuitously , or through search , increased the aggregate joint stock of such his staple commodity ? " - " You ask , " said he , " a question of vast magnitude , of tremendous import , but it shall be answered : what you mean ...
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... acquiring knowledge ? Because the society which owns them as members is founded on inequality , as a pri- mordial base . But if inequality is found to be the parent of ignorance , and ignorance of unhappiness , why is inequality ...
... acquiring knowledge ? Because the society which owns them as members is founded on inequality , as a pri- mordial base . But if inequality is found to be the parent of ignorance , and ignorance of unhappiness , why is inequality ...
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... acquires in- creased fertility of imagination ; is still affected by extrinsic incident : if the digestive organs are impeded , the owner fancies himself eating , to sickness ; if the nostrils are oppressed , he 34 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
... acquires in- creased fertility of imagination ; is still affected by extrinsic incident : if the digestive organs are impeded , the owner fancies himself eating , to sickness ; if the nostrils are oppressed , he 34 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
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