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Page 240
... present ; the words which ex- press what they conceive not ; the trumpet which sings to battle and feels not what it inspires ; the influence which is moved not , but moves . Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of ...
... present ; the words which ex- press what they conceive not ; the trumpet which sings to battle and feels not what it inspires ; the influence which is moved not , but moves . Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of ...
Page 279
... present as it is and discovers those laws according to which present things ought to be ordered but he beholds the fu- ture in the present , and his thoughts are the germs of the flower and the fruit of latest time.12 Not that I assert ...
... present as it is and discovers those laws according to which present things ought to be ordered but he beholds the fu- ture in the present , and his thoughts are the germs of the flower and the fruit of latest time.12 Not that I assert ...
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... present state of the climates of the earth , health , in the true and comprehensive sense of the word , is out of the reach of civilized man . Astronomy teaches us that the earth is now in its prog- ress and that the poles are every ...
... present state of the climates of the earth , health , in the true and comprehensive sense of the word , is out of the reach of civilized man . Astronomy teaches us that the earth is now in its prog- ress and that the poles are every ...
Contents
ESSAY ON | 9 |
THE NECESSITY OF ATHEISM | 37 |
PROPOSALS FOR AN ASSOCIATION | 60 |
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