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- The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world.…
- When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off…
- The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the 'evolution' of brains,…
- There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a…
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