Natural Causes and Supernatural SeemingsK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1887 - 374 páginas |
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... historical ages - and , having regard to their traditions and superstitions , we may assume it to be true also of the pre - historic ages - men have continually made errors in their observations and reasonings ; they have seen and drawn ...
... historical ages - and , having regard to their traditions and superstitions , we may assume it to be true also of the pre - historic ages - men have continually made errors in their observations and reasonings ; they have seen and drawn ...
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... history are annals of human folly . Incredibly strange it certainly would be were we to suppose that the faiths which inspired actual conduct were as badly based as those which filled the abstract 8 NATURAL CAUSES AND SUPERNATURAL SEEMINGS ...
... history are annals of human folly . Incredibly strange it certainly would be were we to suppose that the faiths which inspired actual conduct were as badly based as those which filled the abstract 8 NATURAL CAUSES AND SUPERNATURAL SEEMINGS ...
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... history of medicine is not less fruitful than the history of religion in examples of fallacious obser- vations and of superstitious theories ; and for the same reason - namely , the extreme difficulties of observation and the strong ...
... history of medicine is not less fruitful than the history of religion in examples of fallacious obser- vations and of superstitious theories ; and for the same reason - namely , the extreme difficulties of observation and the strong ...
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... history of medicine teems with instances of false theories of diseases , and of remedies for them which enjoyed for longer or shorter periods immense reputation , on the basis of what was deemed to be adequate experience of their ...
... history of medicine teems with instances of false theories of diseases , and of remedies for them which enjoyed for longer or shorter periods immense reputation , on the basis of what was deemed to be adequate experience of their ...
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... history proves it to have done . But , though a main , this fallacy of coincidence was not the entire , cause of the credit of superstitions of the kind . In cases of signal accord between the omen or prayer and its fulfilment , where ...
... history proves it to have done . But , though a main , this fallacy of coincidence was not the entire , cause of the credit of superstitions of the kind . In cases of signal accord between the omen or prayer and its fulfilment , where ...
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