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... desires . - The desires and affections , which I come next to consider , are dis- tinguished from the appetites in so far as they do not take their rise from the body , nor operate periodically ; but they agree with them in being ...
... desires . - The desires and affections , which I come next to consider , are dis- tinguished from the appetites in so far as they do not take their rise from the body , nor operate periodically ; but they agree with them in being ...
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... desires are unselfish . - But a stronger proof of the prim- itive and unreflecting character of these desires is the fact , that most , if not all , of them are shown in various degrees of inten- sity by the lower animals . Emulation is ...
... desires are unselfish . - But a stronger proof of the prim- itive and unreflecting character of these desires is the fact , that most , if not all , of them are shown in various degrees of inten- sity by the lower animals . Emulation is ...
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... desire , this longing after immortality " is the sentiment of a Christian poet , though he has put it into the mouth of a Roman Stoic , who is made to find in it a provocation to suicide . Not all the desires which are natural to man ...
... desire , this longing after immortality " is the sentiment of a Christian poet , though he has put it into the mouth of a Roman Stoic , who is made to find in it a provocation to suicide . Not all the desires which are natural to man ...
Contents
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND METAPHYSICAL | 1 |
THIS DISTINCTION APPLIED TO PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY | 25 |
CHAPTER VIII | 173 |
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