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... natural world and in silence . Although his sensibility is unlike Marvell's , there is a similar use of the pastoral for sacred allegory and contemplation of the natural world as a step in the soul's ascent towards the divine . The ...
... natural world and in silence . Although his sensibility is unlike Marvell's , there is a similar use of the pastoral for sacred allegory and contemplation of the natural world as a step in the soul's ascent towards the divine . The ...
Page 258
... natural philosophy and the claims then being advanced in England and in France , particularly by Fontenelle's Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds ( 1681 ) , that modern learning was superior to that of the past . In an attempt to ...
... natural philosophy and the claims then being advanced in England and in France , particularly by Fontenelle's Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds ( 1681 ) , that modern learning was superior to that of the past . In an attempt to ...
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... natural revelation whereby God communicates to mankind that portion of truth within the reach of natural faculties , Toland took Locke's ideas further in arguing that ' true religion must necessarily be reasonable and intelligible ...
... natural revelation whereby God communicates to mankind that portion of truth within the reach of natural faculties , Toland took Locke's ideas further in arguing that ' true religion must necessarily be reasonable and intelligible ...
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