The American Biblical Repository1842 |
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... philosophers taught , that goodness and beauty , if not absolute- ly identical , are in their nature inseparable . " Whatever may have been the origin of this love of beauty in the Greek , their system of education was fitted to foster ...
... philosophers taught , that goodness and beauty , if not absolute- ly identical , are in their nature inseparable . " Whatever may have been the origin of this love of beauty in the Greek , their system of education was fitted to foster ...
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... Philosophy came to be considered as a necessary means of education , and to be universally cultivated by those who wished to elevate themselves above the common mass . The four most distinguished philosophical schools , the Academic ...
... Philosophy came to be considered as a necessary means of education , and to be universally cultivated by those who wished to elevate themselves above the common mass . The four most distinguished philosophical schools , the Academic ...
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Athens , in the speculations of philosophy its native element . The age at which the youth sought the philosophical schools is not well defined , but the years devoted to this onestudy were equal to those of our college course . In ...
Athens , in the speculations of philosophy its native element . The age at which the youth sought the philosophical schools is not well defined , but the years devoted to this onestudy were equal to those of our college course . In ...
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... Philosophy . The Romans esteemed it for purposes of measurement . With the Romans , reading , writing , and reckoning were the three chief branches , because they were the most useful . The Greeks thought that all knowledge is desirable ...
... Philosophy . The Romans esteemed it for purposes of measurement . With the Romans , reading , writing , and reckoning were the three chief branches , because they were the most useful . The Greeks thought that all knowledge is desirable ...
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... philosophical cast . Philosophy , as well as all culture , was introduced into Rome by the Greeks , and in later times it was extensively cultivated there . But it never found a genial soil . Rome produced no great philosopher . The ...
... philosophical cast . Philosophy , as well as all culture , was introduced into Rome by the Greeks , and in later times it was extensively cultivated there . But it never found a genial soil . Rome produced no great philosopher . The ...
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