On the Art of Writing / Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914
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able to consider Hegel a greater philosopher than Plato. Abbreviating it I repeat it, because I believe in it yet
day, lying there, he returned to life, and he told them what he had seen in the other world. Many wonders he related concerning the dead, for example, with their rewards and punishments: but what had impressed him as most wonderful of all was the great spindle of Necessity, reaching up to Heaven, with the planets revolving
aw and the prophets, so all religions, all philosophies, hang upon two steadfast
?' Natural Science, allowing that for the present these questions are probably unanswerable, contents itself with mapping and measuring what it can of the various forces. But all agree about the harmony; and when a Galileo or a Newton discovers a single rule of it for us, he but makes our assurance surer.
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