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... never stated a fact to a child , in language which he could comprehend , to which he did not listen with eager attention . The questions he asks , and he is ever ask- ing questions , are not confined to subjects that engage and amuse ...
... never stated a fact to a child , in language which he could comprehend , to which he did not listen with eager attention . The questions he asks , and he is ever ask- ing questions , are not confined to subjects that engage and amuse ...
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... never having been established , either by experiment or reasoning , or in any other way , but at the same time being always so gravely pro- pounded as a universal truth , that it never was questioned by anybody . Let us not , however ...
... never having been established , either by experiment or reasoning , or in any other way , but at the same time being always so gravely pro- pounded as a universal truth , that it never was questioned by anybody . Let us not , however ...
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... never excites in us an interest which it is dangerous to indulge , nor holds up to us an ex- ample which it would be criminal to follow . CHAPTER II , STRENGTH OF THE PASSION FOR KNOWLEDGE . - PYTHAGORAS ; ARCHIMEDES ; LEIBNITZ ...
... never excites in us an interest which it is dangerous to indulge , nor holds up to us an ex- ample which it would be criminal to follow . CHAPTER II , STRENGTH OF THE PASSION FOR KNOWLEDGE . - PYTHAGORAS ; ARCHIMEDES ; LEIBNITZ ...
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... never from that moment be able to refuse his belief to anything that Archimedes might tell him . The illustrious LEIBNITZ , when only in his sixteenth year , conceived the brilliant idea of reducing the elements of thought to a species ...
... never from that moment be able to refuse his belief to anything that Archimedes might tell him . The illustrious LEIBNITZ , when only in his sixteenth year , conceived the brilliant idea of reducing the elements of thought to a species ...
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... never been able to ac- complish the high enterprise which he had so early planned , he declares that , the deeper he had carried his reflections and inquiries , he had only become the more convinced of its practicability . Such ...
... never been able to ac- complish the high enterprise which he had so early planned , he declares that , the deeper he had carried his reflections and inquiries , he had only become the more convinced of its practicability . Such ...
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