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... knowledge , we have come to a point at which it is not unsafe to predict that the tendency , for an indefinite period , is likely to be toward clearer defining of the knowable in terms of increasingly complex processes of physical ...
... knowledge , we have come to a point at which it is not unsafe to predict that the tendency , for an indefinite period , is likely to be toward clearer defining of the knowable in terms of increasingly complex processes of physical ...
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... knowledge problem may be reduced to the desideratum of knowing man acting . If the psychologist , rather than the sociologist , were making this reduc- tion to lowest terms , perhaps he would prefer to substitute some- thing like this ...
... knowledge problem may be reduced to the desideratum of knowing man acting . If the psychologist , rather than the sociologist , were making this reduc- tion to lowest terms , perhaps he would prefer to substitute some- thing like this ...
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... knowledge problem is : What , how , why , and of what account are the processes of sentient action which fall within the human range of research ? The methodological prob- lem then is : What means of discovery are at human disposal for ...
... knowledge problem is : What , how , why , and of what account are the processes of sentient action which fall within the human range of research ? The methodological prob- lem then is : What means of discovery are at human disposal for ...
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... knowledge are not doing this . On the contrary they are vaunting their fixedness . The soci- ologists are men who refuse to be entombed in these sepulchers . They assert that knowledge of life is as vital as life itself , and they ...
... knowledge are not doing this . On the contrary they are vaunting their fixedness . The soci- ologists are men who refuse to be entombed in these sepulchers . They assert that knowledge of life is as vital as life itself , and they ...
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... knowledge in " Die Geschichtswissenschaft ist die Wissenschaft , welche die zeitlich und räumlich bestimmten Tatsachen der Entwicklung der Menschen in ihren ( singu- lären wie typischen und kollektiven ) Betätigungen als soziale Wesen ...
... knowledge in " Die Geschichtswissenschaft ist die Wissenschaft , welche die zeitlich und räumlich bestimmten Tatsachen der Entwicklung der Menschen in ihren ( singu- lären wie typischen und kollektiven ) Betätigungen als soziale Wesen ...
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Page 773 - ... all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced" and swept away. If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality — its universality ; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension — its enlargement. All they ask, we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right ; all we ask, they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which...
Page 214 - I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God...
Page 218 - Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. 5 The mountains melted from before the Lord even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel.
Page 225 - And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name?
Page 151 - By the labor of a captive multitude, they forcibly diverted the course of the Busentinus, a small river that washes the walls of Consentia. The royal sepulchre, adorned with the splendid spoils and trophies of Rome, was constructed in the vacant bed ; the waters were then restored to their natural channel ; and the secret spot, where the remains of Alaric had been deposited, was forever concealed by the inhuman massacre of the prisoners, who had been employed to execute the work.
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Page 773 - Holding, as they do, that slavery is morally right, and socially elevating, they cannot cease to demand a full national recognition of it, as a legal right, and a social blessing.
Page 787 - ... two : first, that like produces like, or that an effect resembles its cause ; and, second, that things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed. The former principle may be called the Law of Similarity, the latter the Law of Contact or Contagion. From the first of these principles, namely the Law of Similarity, the magician infers that he can produce any effect he desires merely by imitating it...
Page 787 - Law of Contact or Contagion. From the first of these principles, namely the Law of Similarity, the magician infers that he can produce any effect he desires merely by imitating it: from the second he infers that whatever he does to a material object will affect equally the person with whom the object was once in contact, whether it formed part of his body or not. Charms based on the Law of Similarity may be called Homeopathic or Imitative Magic. Charms based on the Law of Contact or Contagion may...