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It is by a mathematics in the one case , and by an ethics in the other that we draw our conclusions from these data . The gratitude that we should render to a benefactor , the fidelity that we should observe with a creditor ...
It is by a mathematics in the one case , and by an ethics in the other that we draw our conclusions from these data . The gratitude that we should render to a benefactor , the fidelity that we should observe with a creditor ...
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ma a ethics — just as when in physical science we elevate our regards from the earth we tread upon to the sublime movements of astronomy , we pass to other data but have the same mathematics . He who can resolve a triangle whose angles ...
ma a ethics — just as when in physical science we elevate our regards from the earth we tread upon to the sublime movements of astronomy , we pass to other data but have the same mathematics . He who can resolve a triangle whose angles ...
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On the question of ethics again , it is not more admissible than on the question of mathematics . And by thus confining it within its appropriate limits , we not only make a sounder application of it - but an application of it that we ...
On the question of ethics again , it is not more admissible than on the question of mathematics . And by thus confining it within its appropriate limits , we not only make a sounder application of it - but an application of it that we ...
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Contents
PRELIMINARY VIEWS | 17 |
Of the Metaphysics which have been resorted | 99 |
on the side of Theism | 121 |
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| Title | The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 1 The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Thomas Chalmers |
| Author | Thomas Chalmers |
| Publisher | W. Collins, 1836 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2019 |
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