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Both of these inquiries may be ranked among the most perplexing of those intricate problems which the science of human nature encounters at every step of its progress . The former of these — the inquiry into national character — will ...
Both of these inquiries may be ranked among the most perplexing of those intricate problems which the science of human nature encounters at every step of its progress . The former of these — the inquiry into national character — will ...
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Moreover , the agencies at work in human nature , as well as in external nature , are often thwarted , counteracted , in fact completely neutralized , by others ; and this circumstance creates one of the main difficulties of all ...
Moreover , the agencies at work in human nature , as well as in external nature , are often thwarted , counteracted , in fact completely neutralized , by others ; and this circumstance creates one of the main difficulties of all ...
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... when the convictions of science found as yet no place in the culture of men ,when no shock was given to ordinary human beliefs by the idea of creatures which violated every principle of anatomical structure , -when an extraordinary ...
... when the convictions of science found as yet no place in the culture of men ,when no shock was given to ordinary human beliefs by the idea of creatures which violated every principle of anatomical structure , -when an extraordinary ...
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Springing from essential tendencies of human thought , it crops out in places which are separated by all the earth's diameter , and distinguished by every variety in the manners of life ; while it survives among us still in minds which ...
Springing from essential tendencies of human thought , it crops out in places which are separated by all the earth's diameter , and distinguished by every variety in the manners of life ; while it survives among us still in minds which ...
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2 The eeriest ballads , however , are probably those which penetrate the interior of the elfin world , and reveal the stratagems by which its unearthly inhabitants gratify their well - known fondness for human beings .
2 The eeriest ballads , however , are probably those which penetrate the interior of the elfin world , and reveal the stratagems by which its unearthly inhabitants gratify their well - known fondness for human beings .
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