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... give us only a few glimpses of that essence , mixed with many more glimpses of the human flesh . Our scientific knowledge is of the highest kind when we have succeeded in measuring all the elements concerned in an investigation and in ...
... give us only a few glimpses of that essence , mixed with many more glimpses of the human flesh . Our scientific knowledge is of the highest kind when we have succeeded in measuring all the elements concerned in an investigation and in ...
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... give us the impression that we are dealing , not with a chaotic mass of people , but with a single man growing continually in wisdom and experience . That feeling is strengthened by the contemplation of two correlative ideas : the unity ...
... give us the impression that we are dealing , not with a chaotic mass of people , but with a single man growing continually in wisdom and experience . That feeling is strengthened by the contemplation of two correlative ideas : the unity ...
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... give us , who are the " moderns " of to - day , a less conceited view of our share in the total of human evolution . Of course this age of ours is a very wonderful one , and for us who are living in it , is undoubtedly for that very ...
... give us , who are the " moderns " of to - day , a less conceited view of our share in the total of human evolution . Of course this age of ours is a very wonderful one , and for us who are living in it , is undoubtedly for that very ...
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