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... philosophers of his exact and intelligible but superficial school . Their illustrations of some of the minor conse- quences of the doctrines established by the sublime genius of their predecessors were correct , popular , simple , and ...
... philosophers of his exact and intelligible but superficial school . Their illustrations of some of the minor conse- quences of the doctrines established by the sublime genius of their predecessors were correct , popular , simple , and ...
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... philosophers accounted for the existence without intro- ducing the Devil . The Devil was clearly a Chaldaean invention , for we first hear of him after the return of the Jews from their second Assyrian captivity.2 He is indeed mentioned ...
... philosophers accounted for the existence without intro- ducing the Devil . The Devil was clearly a Chaldaean invention , for we first hear of him after the return of the Jews from their second Assyrian captivity.2 He is indeed mentioned ...
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... philosophers and poets equal to those who ( if we except Shakespeare ) have never been surpassed . We owe the great writers of the golden age of our literature to that fervid awakening of the public mind which shook to dust the oldest ...
... philosophers and poets equal to those who ( if we except Shakespeare ) have never been surpassed . We owe the great writers of the golden age of our literature to that fervid awakening of the public mind which shook to dust the oldest ...
Contents
THE NECESSITY OF ATHEISM | 37 |
A DECLARATION OF RIGHTS | 70 |
NATURAL DIET | 81 |
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