The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 142Atlantic Monthly Company, 1928 - American essays |
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Only man inhabits the universe . It would seem to be the same with the immensities of time . Man looks with forward and reverted eye , but beast and bird , even when instinct impels them to lay up store for the future , live wholly in ...
Only man inhabits the universe . It would seem to be the same with the immensities of time . Man looks with forward and reverted eye , but beast and bird , even when instinct impels them to lay up store for the future , live wholly in ...
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Or , to put it in even simpler terms : ' An , orderly universe is more likely to be run by an orderly intellect than by nothing at all . ' In brief , they are theists , and in this conclusion I think they have reached a common ground ...
Or , to put it in even simpler terms : ' An , orderly universe is more likely to be run by an orderly intellect than by nothing at all . ' In brief , they are theists , and in this conclusion I think they have reached a common ground ...
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But , justified as this conclusion may be from the intellectual point of view , it fails to take into account the fact that , in a universe as badly adapted as this one to human as distinguished from animal needs , this ability to will ...
But , justified as this conclusion may be from the intellectual point of view , it fails to take into account the fact that , in a universe as badly adapted as this one to human as distinguished from animal needs , this ability to will ...
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