The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 140Atlantic Monthly Company, 1927 - American essays |
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Page 18
... less probing thinking , to the examina- tion of facts and behavior . But this ignoring of religion is fatal to the real purpose of education . Facts and be- havior are dead stuff until man begins to interpret them ; and that interpre ...
... less probing thinking , to the examina- tion of facts and behavior . But this ignoring of religion is fatal to the real purpose of education . Facts and be- havior are dead stuff until man begins to interpret them ; and that interpre ...
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... less a spaniel . Your reason is produced by the desire to possess it . Such is my expe- rience and my inference from your guise and habits and gestures . Another professor used to say to me : ' Nothing interferes with progress like not ...
... less a spaniel . Your reason is produced by the desire to possess it . Such is my expe- rience and my inference from your guise and habits and gestures . Another professor used to say to me : ' Nothing interferes with progress like not ...
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... less varied than mine , you are generally baffled . The spade is an instrument that quite defeats you . You must have seen it used to dig out some rabbit or rat that had gone to ground , and have decided that this was a legitimate use ...
... less varied than mine , you are generally baffled . The spade is an instrument that quite defeats you . You must have seen it used to dig out some rabbit or rat that had gone to ground , and have decided that this was a legitimate use ...
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... less apparent . She is still a slave to the primal - - necessities of breeding and acquiring food . You have attained to such faith that you have thrown off such responsi- bilities and left yourself free to wonder at the divine genius ...
... less apparent . She is still a slave to the primal - - necessities of breeding and acquiring food . You have attained to such faith that you have thrown off such responsi- bilities and left yourself free to wonder at the divine genius ...
Page 30
... less , a man could issue a chal- lenge to feminism , such as John Macy's recent Equality of Woman with Man : A Myth , without being suspected of having his tongue in his cheek . There was still no feeling that woman could ever be the ...
... less , a man could issue a chal- lenge to feminism , such as John Macy's recent Equality of Woman with Man : A Myth , without being suspected of having his tongue in his cheek . There was still no feeling that woman could ever be the ...
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