American Library of Useful Knowledge, Volume 1Stimpson and Clapp, 1831 - Science |
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Page 40
... reasoning beings . Man's grand distinction is his intellect , his mental capacity . It is this , which renders him highly and peculiarly responsible to his Creator . It is this , on account of which the rule over other animals is ...
... reasoning beings . Man's grand distinction is his intellect , his mental capacity . It is this , which renders him highly and peculiarly responsible to his Creator . It is this , on account of which the rule over other animals is ...
Page 41
... reasoning power to his own purposes . Without this particular formation he would not be man , with whatever sagacity he had been endowed . No bounteous grant of intellect , were it the pleasure of heaven to make such grant , could raise ...
... reasoning power to his own purposes . Without this particular formation he would not be man , with whatever sagacity he had been endowed . No bounteous grant of intellect , were it the pleasure of heaven to make such grant , could raise ...
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... reasoning faculty , the mind , is the leading characteristic attribute of the human race . By the exercise of this , he arrives at the knowledge of the properties of natural bodies . This is science , properly and emphatically so called ...
... reasoning faculty , the mind , is the leading characteristic attribute of the human race . By the exercise of this , he arrives at the knowledge of the properties of natural bodies . This is science , properly and emphatically so called ...
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... reasoning a priori , their progress has kept pace with the general civilization and education of nations . The history of mechanical philo- sophy , while it strongly illustrates , in its general results , the force of the human mind ...
... reasoning a priori , their progress has kept pace with the general civilization and education of nations . The history of mechanical philo- sophy , while it strongly illustrates , in its general results , the force of the human mind ...
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... reasoning , a priori , on their supposed identity of substance . So deep - rooted was this delusion , that a great part of the natural science of the middle ages consisted in projects to convert the baser metals into gold . It is plain ...
... reasoning , a priori , on their supposed identity of substance . So deep - rooted was this delusion , that a great part of the natural science of the middle ages consisted in projects to convert the baser metals into gold . It is plain ...
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