The National Review, Volume 19W.H. Allen, 1892 - English literature |
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Page 844
... Nature , men imagined a mysterious region which they peopled with entities having an unlimited power of modifying the course of events , and being above Nature . Hence arose the conception of a Supernature " as antithetic to " Nature ...
... Nature , men imagined a mysterious region which they peopled with entities having an unlimited power of modifying the course of events , and being above Nature . Hence arose the conception of a Supernature " as antithetic to " Nature ...
Page 845
... natural knowledge has crowded out erroneous knowledge of the Super- natural which previously was accepted as true . But our knowledge of Nature is not so free from error , what we have substituted for previously accepted knowledge which ...
... natural knowledge has crowded out erroneous knowledge of the Super- natural which previously was accepted as true . But our knowledge of Nature is not so free from error , what we have substituted for previously accepted knowledge which ...
Page 868
... nature as to know , as it were by instinct , what is possible in nature and what is not , and to take such a pleasure in natural beauty that it would jar with his feelings to paint anything that was not in harmony with those principles ...
... nature as to know , as it were by instinct , what is possible in nature and what is not , and to take such a pleasure in natural beauty that it would jar with his feelings to paint anything that was not in harmony with those principles ...
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