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Page 56
... efforts to increase the intellectual value of life , it is the sum of all disinterested efforts from the humblest to the highest . As it is essentially an integration , it is clear enough that it can never be attained by ex- pelling ...
... efforts to increase the intellectual value of life , it is the sum of all disinterested efforts from the humblest to the highest . As it is essentially an integration , it is clear enough that it can never be attained by ex- pelling ...
Page 101
... efforts were spent to solve pseudo - problems , chiefly to conciliate the results of Greek philosophy with religious dogmas of various kinds . Such efforts were naturally sterile , as far as their main object was concerned , but they ...
... efforts were spent to solve pseudo - problems , chiefly to conciliate the results of Greek philosophy with religious dogmas of various kinds . Such efforts were naturally sterile , as far as their main object was concerned , but they ...
Page 169
... efforts of good men are like the proverbial drops of water falling unobtru- sively but uninterruptedly upon the same place and cutting mountains . They must necessarily defeat the erratic efforts of selfish men , however strong the ...
... efforts of good men are like the proverbial drops of water falling unobtru- sively but uninterruptedly upon the same place and cutting mountains . They must necessarily defeat the erratic efforts of selfish men , however strong the ...
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