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... individuals , is alike ideal and fictitious . Individual things cannot have been created by machinery . – Let us see , then , whether this hypothesis of machinery , as the secret of the creation , not of a universe , but of individual ...
... individuals , is alike ideal and fictitious . Individual things cannot have been created by machinery . – Let us see , then , whether this hypothesis of machinery , as the secret of the creation , not of a universe , but of individual ...
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... individual . Nay , as the appointed ministers of justice , it may often be our duty to inflict suffering , and to stifle the emo- tions of sympathy and compassion which prompt us only to increase his happiness . What is done from such ...
... individual . Nay , as the appointed ministers of justice , it may often be our duty to inflict suffering , and to stifle the emo- tions of sympathy and compassion which prompt us only to increase his happiness . What is done from such ...
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... individual , whose existence extends through all ages and over all parts of the earth , so that his sin- gle experience comprises all the woes and crimes which are ac- tually distributed among countless millions of beings . Now it is ...
... individual , whose existence extends through all ages and over all parts of the earth , so that his sin- gle experience comprises all the woes and crimes which are ac- tually distributed among countless millions of beings . Now it is ...
Contents
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND METAPHYSICAL | 1 |
THIS DISTINCTION APPLIED TO PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY | 25 |
CHAPTER VIII | 173 |
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