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... consider what a very commonplace and trivial thing is this which I have said - a thing which any man might say : that when a man has acquired a knowledge of a whole art , the inquiry into good and bad is one and the same . Let us consider ...
... consider what a very commonplace and trivial thing is this which I have said - a thing which any man might say : that when a man has acquired a knowledge of a whole art , the inquiry into good and bad is one and the same . Let us consider ...
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... consider a regular and general solid , its sides and angles , and observe in this the numberless transforma- tions of which it is capable . So , if you would realise the system of historical varieties , consider first a human soul ...
... consider a regular and general solid , its sides and angles , and observe in this the numberless transforma- tions of which it is capable . So , if you would realise the system of historical varieties , consider first a human soul ...
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... consider a code devised for one state of society , in its ( the code's ) rela- tion to a different state of society . It is as if , in physics or engineering , we re- fused to consider a force designed to affect one mass , in its ...
... consider a code devised for one state of society , in its ( the code's ) rela- tion to a different state of society . It is as if , in physics or engineering , we re- fused to consider a force designed to affect one mass , in its ...
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