When they are attributed to other things, they must be taken in a metaphorical sense but a philosopher should abstain from metaphor. Solicitation and effort or conation belong properly to animate beings alone.For no one's authority ought to rank so high as to set a value on his words and terms even though nothing clear and determinate lies behind them. Almost all philosophers utter the caution few observe it. In the pursuit of truth we must beware of being misled by terms which we do not rightly understand.Can Love be controlled by Advice?, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.Cleon Skousen, the first four empires are the Neo-Babylonian Empire, the Persian Empire, the Macedonian Empire, and the (Western, Eastern, and Holy) Roman Empire ( Gospel Diamond Dust, Volume Two, Verity Publishing, 1998) (1919) comparable to: "Westward the star of empire takes its way", Epigraph to Bancroft's History of the United States "What worlds in the yet unformed Occident / May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?", Samuel Daniel, Musophilus (1599), Stanza 163 On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America (written in 1726), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.Westward the course of empire takes its way Ī fifth shall close the drama with the day:.1.4 Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1713).1.3 A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710).
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