The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 14Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller G.P. Putnam's sons, 1917 - English literature |
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... kind of reconciliation was required ; but a parenthetical paragraph in his article on " the Philosophy of Perception " exhausts what he has to say on this important problem . " To obviate misapprehension , " he asserts that all that we ...
... kind of reconciliation was required ; but a parenthetical paragraph in his article on " the Philosophy of Perception " exhausts what he has to say on this important problem . " To obviate misapprehension , " he asserts that all that we ...
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... kind to the plea- sures of the senses , irrespective of any excess of the latter in respect of quantity . In so doing he strikes at the root of hedon- ism , for he makes the ultimate criterion of value reside not in pleasure itself but ...
... kind to the plea- sures of the senses , irrespective of any excess of the latter in respect of quantity . In so doing he strikes at the root of hedon- ism , for he makes the ultimate criterion of value reside not in pleasure itself but ...
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... kind , and he had certainly small acquaintance with previous speculation regarding them . But he had great skill in adapting current doctrines to his uses ; and he found what he needed in the doctrine of the relativity of knowledge set ...
... kind , and he had certainly small acquaintance with previous speculation regarding them . But he had great skill in adapting current doctrines to his uses ; and he found what he needed in the doctrine of the relativity of knowledge set ...
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... kind are subject to this law . It is throughout conceived as a law of progress , which will issue in a highest state establishing " the extremest multiformity and most complete roving equilibrium . " But this stage , also , cannot be ...
... kind are subject to this law . It is throughout conceived as a law of progress , which will issue in a highest state establishing " the extremest multiformity and most complete roving equilibrium . " But this stage , also , cannot be ...
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... kind , partly philosophical and partly scientific , the results of which were not fully published at the time of his death in 1878. These results were contained in Problems of Life and Mind , the first two volumes of which , entitled ...
... kind , partly philosophical and partly scientific , the results of which were not fully published at the time of his death in 1878. These results were contained in Problems of Life and Mind , the first two volumes of which , entitled ...
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