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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: problem, and thereby prepared perhaps the solutions. Who does not perceive how immense would be the speculative results, and how important the practical results for policy and education ? Never had I felt a more religious sentiment of my mission than in tbese lectures of the last two years; never had I better comprehended the sacerdotal, the pontifical character of history; I bore all that past, as I would have borne the ashes of my father or my son. It was whilst I was engaged in this religious work, that outrage came upon me. It took place four years ago, the 7th of April, 1842, after a very serious lecture, in which I established in opposition to the sophists, the moral unity of the human race. The word had been given to disturb the lectures. But public indignation frightened the brave men; ill organised as yet, they thought it better to wait for the all-powerful effect of the libel which the Jesuit D. was writing from the notes of his fraternity, and which M. Des- garets, canon of Lyons, signed, avowing he was not the author of it. I do not like contention. I retired and remained buried for a whole year in my studies, my solitary work, my dream of the olden time. These men, who were not asleep, grew bold; they thought they might come behind with impunity and strike the dreamer. It so happened, however, that, by the progress of my labour, and the very plan of my lectures, I was coming upon them. Occupied till now in explaining and analysing life, I was naturally obliged to bring into contrast that false life which counterfeits it; I was to contrast living organism and sterile machinism. But even though I could explain life, without showing death, should have considered it the duty of a professor of philosophy not to decline the question which forced its...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217332118 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217332110 |
| Weight | 0.45 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.31 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 132 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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