Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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... material mechanism ; he points to the anatomy of man's moral and spiritual health as our proper concern : To this End , I have some Time since , with a World of Pains and Art , dissected the Carcass of Humane Nature , and read many ...
... material mechanism ; he points to the anatomy of man's moral and spiritual health as our proper concern : To this End , I have some Time since , with a World of Pains and Art , dissected the Carcass of Humane Nature , and read many ...
Page 81
... material and the spiritual in other ways , for instance , as we have seen , in the problem of the spermatozoon , or animalcule . Descartes was not the only philosopher to be affected by the movement . Hobbes , for instance , approached ...
... material and the spiritual in other ways , for instance , as we have seen , in the problem of the spermatozoon , or animalcule . Descartes was not the only philosopher to be affected by the movement . Hobbes , for instance , approached ...
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... material mechanisms , the movement of extremely refined , but still material , soul - atoms responding to the pressures of other incoming atoms . The principal defender of the Epicurean view of things in the seventeenth century , Pierre ...
... material mechanisms , the movement of extremely refined , but still material , soul - atoms responding to the pressures of other incoming atoms . The principal defender of the Epicurean view of things in the seventeenth century , Pierre ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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