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... consist usually of a natural fact , selected as a picture or parable of a moral truth . Thus ; A rolling stone gathers no moss ; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ; A cripple in the right way will beat a racer 38 LANGUAGE .
... consist usually of a natural fact , selected as a picture or parable of a moral truth . Thus ; A rolling stone gathers no moss ; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ; A cripple in the right way will beat a racer 38 LANGUAGE .
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... facts , but we repeat them for the value of their analogical import . What is true of proverbs , is true of all fables , parables , and allegories . This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied by some poet , but stands in ...
... facts , but we repeat them for the value of their analogical import . What is true of proverbs , is true of all fables , parables , and allegories . This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied by some poet , but stands in ...
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... Fact is the end or last issue of spirit . The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisi- ble world . " Material objects , " said a French philosopher , “ are necessarily kinds of scorice of the substantial ...
... Fact is the end or last issue of spirit . The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisi- ble world . " Material objects , " said a French philosopher , “ are necessarily kinds of scorice of the substantial ...
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... fact , that nature is a discipline . This use of the world includes the preceding uses , as parts of itself . Space , time , society , labor , climate , food , locomo- tion , the animals , the mechanical forces , give us sincerest ...
... fact , that nature is a discipline . This use of the world includes the preceding uses , as parts of itself . Space , time , society , labor , climate , food , locomo- tion , the animals , the mechanical forces , give us sincerest ...
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... facts to his character . Nature is thoroughly mediate . It is made to serve . It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode . It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into ...
... facts to his character . Nature is thoroughly mediate . It is made to serve . It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode . It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into ...
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