Shelley's Prose: Or, The Trumpet of a Prophecy |
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... ideas , particularly in science , which characterized the dons . Shelley had little interest in abstract learning of any kind ; with him as with Bacon whom he so greatly admired , the vital question was always , What will this new idea ...
... ideas , particularly in science , which characterized the dons . Shelley had little interest in abstract learning of any kind ; with him as with Bacon whom he so greatly admired , the vital question was always , What will this new idea ...
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... ideas of a universe ruled by Necessity . The very phrase , Thou mother of the world , comes directly from Holbach , and the idea of a pervading force in nature Holbach discusses at length . The ideas thus early gained under- went but ...
... ideas of a universe ruled by Necessity . The very phrase , Thou mother of the world , comes directly from Holbach , and the idea of a pervading force in nature Holbach discusses at length . The ideas thus early gained under- went but ...
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... idea . If we found our belief in the existence of God on the universal consent of mankind , we are duped by the most palpable of soph- isms . The word God cannot mean at the same time an ape , a snake , a bone , a cala- bash , a trinity ...
... idea . If we found our belief in the existence of God on the universal consent of mankind , we are duped by the most palpable of soph- isms . The word God cannot mean at the same time an ape , a snake , a bone , a cala- bash , a trinity ...
Contents
THE GROWTH OF SHELLEYS MIND | 3 |
THE NECESSITY OF ATHEISM | 37 |
A DECLARATION OF RIGHTS | 70 |
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