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... tion , contains solid truth , if we restrict it , as we ought . to the separation of each science from the theological and metaphysical philosophy which was the natural product of early human intelligence . In this view it is Relation ...
... tion , contains solid truth , if we restrict it , as we ought . to the separation of each science from the theological and metaphysical philosophy which was the natural product of early human intelligence . In this view it is Relation ...
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... tion of theory with practice . Our power of speculation , limited as it is , still far surpasses our capacity for action : so that it would be radically absurd to restrict the progress of the one to that of the other . The rational ...
... tion of theory with practice . Our power of speculation , limited as it is , still far surpasses our capacity for action : so that it would be radically absurd to restrict the progress of the one to that of the other . The rational ...
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... tion ; yet it might have been better to express them . With this modification , the definition is unexceptionable , -enunciating the one phenomenon which is common to all living beings , and excluding all inert bodies . Here we have ...
... tion ; yet it might have been better to express them . With this modification , the definition is unexceptionable , -enunciating the one phenomenon which is common to all living beings , and excluding all inert bodies . Here we have ...
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... tion of the chief phenomenon is not obscured , but much elucidated , by this natural process . And again , it may be applied directly to Man himself , without prejudice to the pathology of animals , and even of vegetables . We may enjoy ...
... tion of the chief phenomenon is not obscured , but much elucidated , by this natural process . And again , it may be applied directly to Man himself , without prejudice to the pathology of animals , and even of vegetables . We may enjoy ...
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... tion can be used ; and then , only in subordination to the two others . It is in the study , both statical and dynamical , of living bodies , that it first acquires its full development ; and its use elsewhere can be only through its ...
... tion can be used ; and then , only in subordination to the two others . It is in the study , both statical and dynamical , of living bodies , that it first acquires its full development ; and its use elsewhere can be only through its ...
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