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Page 66
... knowledge of things external to himself . Or , as we might put it , one of man's highest faculties is his gift for disinterested knowledge . It was through that gift that he might learn something of God . But there was another subject ...
... knowledge of things external to himself . Or , as we might put it , one of man's highest faculties is his gift for disinterested knowledge . It was through that gift that he might learn something of God . But there was another subject ...
Page 67
... knowledge and wisdom still survives , but the soul's instruments had been impaired and often shirk the labour by which knowledge is obtained . The understanding then had to sift the evidence of the senses already organised by the common ...
... knowledge and wisdom still survives , but the soul's instruments had been impaired and often shirk the labour by which knowledge is obtained . The understanding then had to sift the evidence of the senses already organised by the common ...
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... knowledge of the general doctrine . Elyot shows the same when he says that the governor's tutor shall commend the perfect understanding of music , declaring how necessary it is for the better attaining the knowledge of a public weal ...
... knowledge of the general doctrine . Elyot shows the same when he says that the governor's tutor shall commend the perfect understanding of music , declaring how necessary it is for the better attaining the knowledge of a public weal ...
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