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... nature's corruption he has to admit the educative force of the speculum creaturarum . The chain of being is still a means of spiritual ascent : but only in an ideal interpretation . God has a ceremonial as well as a natural law , and it ...
... nature's corruption he has to admit the educative force of the speculum creaturarum . The chain of being is still a means of spiritual ascent : but only in an ideal interpretation . God has a ceremonial as well as a natural law , and it ...
Page 42
... Nature there follow the angels arranged in the Dionysian order . This giving a soul to nature - nature , that is , in the sense of natura naturans , the creative force , not of natura naturata , the natural creation - was a mildly ...
... Nature there follow the angels arranged in the Dionysian order . This giving a soul to nature - nature , that is , in the sense of natura naturans , the creative force , not of natura naturata , the natural creation - was a mildly ...
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... nature more than nature needs , Man's life is cheap as beasts ' . And Gelli has the same idea in this dialogue between Ulysses and the mole . Ulysses . But one would be glad to have more than one has a mere necessity for . Mole . Why ...
... nature more than nature needs , Man's life is cheap as beasts ' . And Gelli has the same idea in this dialogue between Ulysses and the mole . Ulysses . But one would be glad to have more than one has a mere necessity for . Mole . Why ...
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