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We understand a thing when we have discovered what it can do in relation to other things. In different relations it acts differently, but in every case with a definiteness in accord with its property. Its operation in specific cases is a specific operation which nonetheless illustrates its proper action.
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The incorporation of man into nature may well do something to man, but it must also do something to nature. It is impossible that the word "nature" can mean the same after this incorporation that it meant before.
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It is a theory of nature, that system of things which allows a plant to grow, an animal to graze, and a man to think, fully as much as it allows the sun to be eclipsed or bodies to be in motion or at rest.
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Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge
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Born:
March 26, 1867
Died:
June 1, 1940
(aged 73)
Bio:
Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge was a teacher at various American universities. Woodbridge considered himself a naïve realist, deeply impressed with Santayana.
Known for:
The purpose of history (1916)
The Son of Apollo (1929)
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