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... called " analysis . " When an author wishes to explain one idea , one process , or one object , he may partition it - to consider its parts . In explaining a chair , he may write about its back , then its seat , then its arms , and ...
... called " analysis . " When an author wishes to explain one idea , one process , or one object , he may partition it - to consider its parts . In explaining a chair , he may write about its back , then its seat , then its arms , and ...
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... called defeat or by what is called victory , thrusts aside enemy and obstruction , crushes everything immoral as inhuman , and ob- tains the ultimate triumph of the best race by the sacrifice of every- thing which resists the moral laws ...
... called defeat or by what is called victory , thrusts aside enemy and obstruction , crushes everything immoral as inhuman , and ob- tains the ultimate triumph of the best race by the sacrifice of every- thing which resists the moral laws ...
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... called Nature , to do a work that has in fact to be done by human insight , foresight , and purposeful planning ... called prosperity . If " idealists " were misguided in what they failed to do , “ realists " were wrong in what they did ...
... called Nature , to do a work that has in fact to be done by human insight , foresight , and purposeful planning ... called prosperity . If " idealists " were misguided in what they failed to do , “ realists " were wrong in what they did ...
Contents
SPACE ARRANGEMENT The Battlefield of Waterloo | 7 |
COMPARISON AND CONTRAST True and False Humor | 13 |
ANALOGY The Stagecoach from Looking Backward Edward Bellamy | 19 |
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