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... favourable to fetich theology than to any other . All substances being immediately personified , and endowed with passions , powerful in proportion to the energy of the phenomena , the external world presented to the observer a ...
... favourable to fetich theology than to any other . All substances being immediately personified , and endowed with passions , powerful in proportion to the energy of the phenomena , the external world presented to the observer a ...
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... theological quality which is so favourable to the incitement of human activity in the absence of all knowledge of natural laws , —the assurance : given to Man that he is supreme in Nature . III . C Institution of Agriculture To Industry.
... theological quality which is so favourable to the incitement of human activity in the absence of all knowledge of natural laws , —the assurance : given to Man that he is supreme in Nature . III . C Institution of Agriculture To Industry.
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... must be in fetichism something favourable to the change , though we may not know precisely what it was . But I have no doubt about the essential principle . The worship of the external world must be especially directed to.
... must be in fetichism something favourable to the change , though we may not know precisely what it was . But I have no doubt about the essential principle . The worship of the external world must be especially directed to.
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... favourable as is the growing subdivision of employments to the milder inclinations of the majority of society ; and , honour- able as is the Utopia of Pythagoras , imagined in an age when the destructive tendency prevailed in the ...
... favourable as is the growing subdivision of employments to the milder inclinations of the majority of society ; and , honour- able as is the Utopia of Pythagoras , imagined in an age when the destructive tendency prevailed in the ...
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... favourable of its aspects . Its influence upon the fine arts is more easily appreciable and less disputed . Our concern is however more with the source of the influence than with the results . Polytheistic Art . Through a confusion of ...
... favourable of its aspects . Its influence upon the fine arts is more easily appreciable and less disputed . Our concern is however more with the source of the influence than with the results . Polytheistic Art . Through a confusion of ...
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