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Page xviii
... perhaps a suspicion that the rational point for the time being is some- where between the two extremes , and that the people who ' don't know what to make of it , ' are nearer the true result of the present state of materials than ...
... perhaps a suspicion that the rational point for the time being is some- where between the two extremes , and that the people who ' don't know what to make of it , ' are nearer the true result of the present state of materials than ...
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... , attempts at imposition commence . Some forged flints - perhaps also bones - have certainly been put into the drift ; and some forged spirits have made their communi- เ cations . The philosophical world is of easy belief xxviii PREFACE .
... , attempts at imposition commence . Some forged flints - perhaps also bones - have certainly been put into the drift ; and some forged spirits have made their communi- เ cations . The philosophical world is of easy belief xxviii PREFACE .
Page xxxiii
... perhaps I should regret it afterwards . ' If it be a practical impossibility for a human being to think himself out of existence , this point of structure is matter for very grave thought . But to assert , as even theologians have done ...
... perhaps I should regret it afterwards . ' If it be a practical impossibility for a human being to think himself out of existence , this point of structure is matter for very grave thought . But to assert , as even theologians have done ...
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... perhaps at the beginning of its end has selected the weaker points of the old day , and has attached them to the word schoolman , which has been made a term of contempt . An age to come may possibly repeat this process ; and if it ...
... perhaps at the beginning of its end has selected the weaker points of the old day , and has attached them to the word schoolman , which has been made a term of contempt . An age to come may possibly repeat this process ; and if it ...
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... perhaps will move in a circuitous di- rection , or perhaps will at once tip ' down to one side . If it goes round , one of the party will save time by asking the invisible influence * to tip it , and the request is almost sure to be ...
... perhaps will move in a circuitous di- rection , or perhaps will at once tip ' down to one side . If it goes round , one of the party will save time by asking the invisible influence * to tip it , and the request is almost sure to be ...
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