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... faculty , they say , our mind , simple and indivisible as it truly is , is , as it were , multiplied and extended , expanding itself over that long series of sensations and emotions , in which it seems to live again , and to live with ...
... faculty , they say , our mind , simple and indivisible as it truly is , is , as it were , multiplied and extended , expanding itself over that long series of sensations and emotions , in which it seems to live again , and to live with ...
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... faculty pronounce that truth - telling is right , and falsehood wrong ; the only distinction between the two cases is , that , in the former one , the mental act terminates when the judgment is formed , truth or knowledge being the ɔnly ...
... faculty pronounce that truth - telling is right , and falsehood wrong ; the only distinction between the two cases is , that , in the former one , the mental act terminates when the judgment is formed , truth or knowledge being the ɔnly ...
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... faculty of perceiving that law and its absolute obliga- tion , and thereby of distinguishing right from wrong . He might have constituted us like the lower animals , who have no knowledge of it whatever . Why did he impart that knowl ...
... faculty of perceiving that law and its absolute obliga- tion , and thereby of distinguishing right from wrong . He might have constituted us like the lower animals , who have no knowledge of it whatever . Why did he impart that knowl ...
Contents
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND METAPHYSICAL | 1 |
THIS DISTINCTION APPLIED TO PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY | 25 |
CHAPTER VIII | 173 |
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