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... mind to a passive recipient of external sense - stimuli , 123 and rationalism proper , which sees the mind as essentially active , and knowledge as the deliberate construct of human reason . Of course , the Puritan emphasis on ...
... mind to a passive recipient of external sense - stimuli , 123 and rationalism proper , which sees the mind as essentially active , and knowledge as the deliberate construct of human reason . Of course , the Puritan emphasis on ...
Page 124
... mind goes in circles , turning back upon itself . . . Milton's mind , on the contrary , presses forward to some end.'140 The end in question is , of course , normally the realisation of the didactic purpose of the poem . And this ...
... mind goes in circles , turning back upon itself . . . Milton's mind , on the contrary , presses forward to some end.'140 The end in question is , of course , normally the realisation of the didactic purpose of the poem . And this ...
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... mind , and the rational purity of the Lady's , inform not only their respective languages , but also their respective modes of argument . Throughout the entire scene , the Lady never once moves from her resolute commitment to the value ...
... mind , and the rational purity of the Lady's , inform not only their respective languages , but also their respective modes of argument . Throughout the entire scene , the Lady never once moves from her resolute commitment to the value ...
Contents
Acknowledgements | 7 |
The World Vision of Revolutionary Independency | 50 |
The English Revolutionary Crisis | 60 |
Copyright | |
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