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... doctrine of evolution is only the last of a long chain of sequences . But the changes which it has already effected in the tendencies of the deeper processes of thought altogether exceed in import any previously experienced . Even its ...
... doctrine of evolution is only the last of a long chain of sequences . But the changes which it has already effected in the tendencies of the deeper processes of thought altogether exceed in import any previously experienced . Even its ...
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... doctrine is , to all appearance , destined to accomplish is not as yet fully perceived by any school of thought . But , if the attempt be made to grasp the application of what we may now distinguish to be one of its central principles ...
... doctrine is , to all appearance , destined to accomplish is not as yet fully perceived by any school of thought . But , if the attempt be made to grasp the application of what we may now distinguish to be one of its central principles ...
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... doctrine of evolution , constructed the theory of social and political development set forth in his Synthetic Philosophy . It is the leading idea which expresses itself in Mr. Spencer's conception of the modern development towards ...
... doctrine of evolution , constructed the theory of social and political development set forth in his Synthetic Philosophy . It is the leading idea which expresses itself in Mr. Spencer's conception of the modern development towards ...
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... doctrine . The Economic Journal , vol . viii . p . 443 . Mr. Bonar's remark on the doctrine goes to the root of the subject . " Both dogmas seem not so much obviously untrue as obviously beyond testing , for if all is tainted with ...
... doctrine . The Economic Journal , vol . viii . p . 443 . Mr. Bonar's remark on the doctrine goes to the root of the subject . " Both dogmas seem not so much obviously untrue as obviously beyond testing , for if all is tainted with ...
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... doctrine of the right of princes , otherwise than as derived from the people , as already " sunk into contempt and almost oblivion " 1 - down to the modern period - in which the industrial and politi- cal expansion of England and the ...
... doctrine of the right of princes , otherwise than as derived from the people , as already " sunk into contempt and almost oblivion " 1 - down to the modern period - in which the industrial and politi- cal expansion of England and the ...
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