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... man's constitution and of his position in creation . It makes a remarkable instance of the continuity of a tradition that the passage quoted from Photius's little Life of Pythagoras can serve as text for most of my de- scription . The ...
... man's constitution and of his position in creation . It makes a remarkable instance of the continuity of a tradition that the passage quoted from Photius's little Life of Pythagoras can serve as text for most of my de- scription . The ...
Page 73
... man's middle state . Finally , we must ever remember that man's status in the range of creation was never separated from his fall and re- demption . The following passage sums up the whole situation of man as tersely as any I know : If ...
... man's middle state . Finally , we must ever remember that man's status in the range of creation was never separated from his fall and re- demption . The following passage sums up the whole situation of man as tersely as any I know : If ...
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... man's physical and mental constitution . It remains to mention some more general or poetical comparisons and to assert that the idea of man summing up the universe in himself had a strong hold on the imagination of the Elizabethans ...
... man's physical and mental constitution . It remains to mention some more general or poetical comparisons and to assert that the idea of man summing up the universe in himself had a strong hold on the imagination of the Elizabethans ...
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