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... perfect stranger to me . He told me , in a subsequent letter , that he had wished , for many years , to do what I was then attempting , and had been prevented only by ill health . My estimate of M. Comte's work , and my expecta- tions ...
... perfect stranger to me . He told me , in a subsequent letter , that he had wished , for many years , to do what I was then attempting , and had been prevented only by ill health . My estimate of M. Comte's work , and my expecta- tions ...
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... perfect suitability of the theological philosophy to the earliest researches of the human mind . It is remarkable that the most inaccessible questions , those of the nature of beings , and the origin and purpose of phenomena , -should ...
... perfect suitability of the theological philosophy to the earliest researches of the human mind . It is remarkable that the most inaccessible questions , those of the nature of beings , and the origin and purpose of phenomena , -should ...
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... perfect science of all , the general idea of it is far from being clearly determined . The definition of the science , and its chief divisions , have remained up to this time vague and uncertain . The plural form of the name ( grammati ...
... perfect science of all , the general idea of it is far from being clearly determined . The definition of the science , and its chief divisions , have remained up to this time vague and uncertain . The plural form of the name ( grammati ...
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... perfect . And the true character of the Calculus is what we have said . From an historical point of view , Mathematical Analysis appears to have arisen out of the contemplation of geome- trical and mechanical facts ; but it is not the ...
... perfect . And the true character of the Calculus is what we have said . From an historical point of view , Mathematical Analysis appears to have arisen out of the contemplation of geome- trical and mechanical facts ; but it is not the ...
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... perfect it is , in com- parison with all other branches of our positive science . The perfection consists in the simplicity of the ideas con- templated ; and not , as Condillac and others have supposed , to the conciseness and ...
... perfect it is , in com- parison with all other branches of our positive science . The perfection consists in the simplicity of the ideas con- templated ; and not , as Condillac and others have supposed , to the conciseness and ...
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