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Before any general truth is discovered , first one and then another fact on which it depends is learned to be true ; first one subordinate principle and then another is revealed ; until , after a while , the accumulation of facts and ...
Before any general truth is discovered , first one and then another fact on which it depends is learned to be true ; first one subordinate principle and then another is revealed ; until , after a while , the accumulation of facts and ...
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They are designed for the apprehension and discovery of truth , and the highest of all motives to intellectual activity , is the love of truth for itself . The matter of thought , according to the reasoning of Sir William Hamilton ...
They are designed for the apprehension and discovery of truth , and the highest of all motives to intellectual activity , is the love of truth for itself . The matter of thought , according to the reasoning of Sir William Hamilton ...
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The question next arises , what are these truths that constituted science ? Were they the facts and events of ... So far from it , that these were the things which kept the mind from the embrace of truth . Real truth , that which alone ...
The question next arises , what are these truths that constituted science ? Were they the facts and events of ... So far from it , that these were the things which kept the mind from the embrace of truth . Real truth , that which alone ...
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| Title | Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 29 |
| Editors | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell |
| Publisher | Wiley & Putnam, 1967 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2007 |
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