Great Treasury of Western Thought: A Compendium of Important Statements on Man and His Institutions by the Great Thinkers in Western HistoryMortimer Jerome Adler, Charles Lincoln Van Doren Passages from the West's great written works, ranging from the Odyssey and the Old Testament to the Interpretation of Dreams and Ulysses, comment on love, knowledge, ethics, war, art, and other abiding topics. |
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... body , must we not admit that the mind and the soul are of a bodily nature ? . . . I will now go on to explain in my verses of what kind of body the mind consists and out of what it is formed . First of all I say that it is extremely ...
... body , must we not admit that the mind and the soul are of a bodily nature ? . . . I will now go on to explain in my verses of what kind of body the mind consists and out of what it is formed . First of all I say that it is extremely ...
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... body whose force it is and differs nothing from the inac- tivity of the mass , but in our manner of conceiving it . A body , from the inert nature of matter , is not without difficulty put out of its state of rest or motion . Upon which ...
... body whose force it is and differs nothing from the inac- tivity of the mass , but in our manner of conceiving it . A body , from the inert nature of matter , is not without difficulty put out of its state of rest or motion . Upon which ...
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... body , and for that reason to it is given the circular body whose nature it is to move always in a circle . Why , then , is not the whole body of the heaven of the same character as that part ? Because there must be something at rest at ...
... body , and for that reason to it is given the circular body whose nature it is to move always in a circle . Why , then , is not the whole body of the heaven of the same character as that part ? Because there must be something at rest at ...
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