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... obtain the favor of superficial readers , but it would be false . - - The case of mankind is not essentially different from that of a single man , though it is infinitely more complex . To begin with , the main direction is not so easy ...
... obtain the favor of superficial readers , but it would be false . - - The case of mankind is not essentially different from that of a single man , though it is infinitely more complex . To begin with , the main direction is not so easy ...
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... obtain them . By the end of the eleventh century their longing was partly fulfilled by Constantine the African , aptly called " magister orientis et occidentis " ; he was indeed one of the great intermediaries between the East and the ...
... obtain them . By the end of the eleventh century their longing was partly fulfilled by Constantine the African , aptly called " magister orientis et occidentis " ; he was indeed one of the great intermediaries between the East and the ...
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... obtain a doctor's degree in any science without having satis- fied the examiners that he had some knowledge of its history . Unfortunately this remained hardly more than a pious wish because the teaching of that history instead of being ...
... obtain a doctor's degree in any science without having satis- fied the examiners that he had some knowledge of its history . Unfortunately this remained hardly more than a pious wish because the teaching of that history instead of being ...
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