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... fact about them which we cannot , in any sense , observe directly is the fact that they took place two million years ago . And that brings us back to our first assumption that something really happened , or that events really took place ...
... fact about them which we cannot , in any sense , observe directly is the fact that they took place two million years ago . And that brings us back to our first assumption that something really happened , or that events really took place ...
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... fact is , then , that the past in history varies with the present , rests upon the present , is the present.1 Even more definite , perhaps , is what follows a little later . The facts of history are present facts . And it is misleading ...
... fact is , then , that the past in history varies with the present , rests upon the present , is the present.1 Even more definite , perhaps , is what follows a little later . The facts of history are present facts . And it is misleading ...
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... fact is that Bach had no disposition to deal with opera and Handel no dis- position to reform it , for the simple reason that music itself was no more dramatic than architecture . Handel lived to see the early failures of Gluck , who ...
... fact is that Bach had no disposition to deal with opera and Handel no dis- position to reform it , for the simple reason that music itself was no more dramatic than architecture . Handel lived to see the early failures of Gluck , who ...
Contents
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir David Ross | 21 |
ARAB RULE UNDER THE AL BU SAID DYNASTY OF OMAN Raleigh | 27 |
SOME PROBLEMS OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY Philosophical | 55 |
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