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... idea of a mental science would be , to use Comte's famous distinction , ' metaphysical ' , depending on the con- ception of an occult substance underlying the facts of his- Decult ? ying facts torical activity ; the alternative idea ...
... idea of a mental science would be , to use Comte's famous distinction , ' metaphysical ' , depending on the con- ception of an occult substance underlying the facts of his- Decult ? ying facts torical activity ; the alternative idea ...
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... idea of a science of human nature , as entertained in the eighteenth century , belonged to a time when it was still believed that the human species , like every other , was a special creation with unalterable characteristics . The ...
... idea of a science of human nature , as entertained in the eighteenth century , belonged to a time when it was still believed that the human species , like every other , was a special creation with unalterable characteristics . The ...
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... idea of creating one nation out of England and so much of France as they could hold : an idea which led to the Hundred Years ' War , that ' tissue of calamitous follies ' which put back the clock in Western Europe for generations . Yet ...
... idea of creating one nation out of England and so much of France as they could hold : an idea which led to the Hundred Years ' War , that ' tissue of calamitous follies ' which put back the clock in Western Europe for generations . Yet ...
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