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All this is not only a problem in literary history ; it is a problem in something still more important - human nature . It was lack of knowledge of human nature that made Plato's Republic a Cloud- cuckoo - town , and caused Marx ...
All this is not only a problem in literary history ; it is a problem in something still more important - human nature . It was lack of knowledge of human nature that made Plato's Republic a Cloud- cuckoo - town , and caused Marx ...
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Still in his multifarious interests he kept at least one principle of selection - knowledge , unless it were to be a futile vanity , must bear on human life . ' He that would travel for the entertainment of others , should remember that ...
Still in his multifarious interests he kept at least one principle of selection - knowledge , unless it were to be a futile vanity , must bear on human life . ' He that would travel for the entertainment of others , should remember that ...
Pagina 158
Human nature , ' he says , with that generaliz- ing mania which so often blinded the eighteenth century , ' is the same all over the world ' — though its externals may be varied by ' education and habit ' .
Human nature , ' he says , with that generaliz- ing mania which so often blinded the eighteenth century , ' is the same all over the world ' — though its externals may be varied by ' education and habit ' .
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The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
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