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... belief in the perfection of the circle and the harmony of the spheres ; but such relationships have proved more ... belief in man himself . It was a belief , he maintains , which found its political expression in the emergence of ...
... belief in the perfection of the circle and the harmony of the spheres ; but such relationships have proved more ... belief in man himself . It was a belief , he maintains , which found its political expression in the emergence of ...
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... belief in an area of fire beyond the air — all intrinsic to the Copernican movement - had disrupted the estab- lished order of man's world , and in its place he saw only a bewildering moral chaos : And new Philosophy calls all in doubt ...
... belief in an area of fire beyond the air — all intrinsic to the Copernican movement - had disrupted the estab- lished order of man's world , and in its place he saw only a bewildering moral chaos : And new Philosophy calls all in doubt ...
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... belief he enunciated in his prose tracts , that all creation ( and angels too are God's creatures ) is imperishable , since matter itself is of divine origin ; ' . . . if all things are not only from God , but of God , no created thing ...
... belief he enunciated in his prose tracts , that all creation ( and angels too are God's creatures ) is imperishable , since matter itself is of divine origin ; ' . . . if all things are not only from God , but of God , no created thing ...
Contents
The Arch Antagonist | 50 |
Corporal Forms | 80 |
The War in Heaven | 116 |
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