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Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct …
Iain Pears The Dream of Scipio action body civilization continuance mankind
[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we must strive, we must engage ourselves with the business of the world for our…
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She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic …
Iain Pears The Dream of Scipio dissolution freedom immortality liberation meaning
Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without w…
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Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlighte…
Iain Pears The Dream of Scipio enlightenment philosophy
Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in…
Iain Pears The Dream of Scipio civilization crudeness education knowledge materialism
[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the truth.""No, they do not. They are a…
Iain Pears The Dream of Scipio beliefs enlightenment fear mankind philosophy
I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began." And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argument to cloak such acts? Do you think that the peace of a tho…
Iain Pears The Dream of Scipio corruption doctrine evil good injustice
Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he had not learned what he should b…
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Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then thought of something." The manuscript you brought me, by that bishop. It argues tha…
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  1. Certain pears 78.26%
  2. Autumn pears 72.73%
  3. Pick pears 70.00%
  4. Pair of pears 69.57%
  5. Kind of pears. 69.57%
  6. European pears 66.67%
  7. Kinds of pears 66.67%
  8. Large pears 66.67%
  9. Pears 66.67%
  10. Pares pears 66.67%
  11. Pears, in Paris 66.67%
  12. Small pears. 66.67%
  13. Choice among pears 64.29%
  14. Alligator pears 64.00%
  15. Skinned, as pears 61.54%
  16. Apples and pears 61.54%
  17. Prickly pears 60.87%
  18. Prepare pears 60.87%
  19. Some pears 60.00%
  20. Peaches and pears 59.26%
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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