Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Messrs. Colby Brothers at a price to be fixed by three disinterested persons, or to sell or lease to them on the most favorable terms, but they have declined to enter into any negotiations. I therefore feel it my duty to make this public statement to defend myself from any imputations of dishonesty or unfairness...
...consequence, nothing having a narrative importance occurred. The present world also believes in a mechanical order of nature, but has superposed upon this mechanical view an historical, and consequently an essentially idealistic and teleological interpretation of nature's mechanism. To bring this fact to consciousness, to define and to defend this historical interpretation, is the whole task that properly falls to the lot of a "Philosophy of Evolution." As for the particular truths about the actual process of evolution, it is the business of empirical study to find them out. That there is genuine, and not merely apparent history...
...question arises, whether, after all, the whole foregoing analysis of Reality and Truth can defend itself against an ultinate skepicism, which should question how any conscious being can in any wise escape from his in her life as such, and know any truth, real or ideal beyond his private consciousness. The essentially Kantian answer is suggessel, that in fact no self really escapes or even means to escape from the world of its own true selfconsciousness, in the act of knowing truth; but that. never the less, the world of the Self is not the world of the private...
...Robert P. Porter, President Harrison's unfortunate appointee to the superintendency of the last census, writes on "Partisanship and the Census," the article being an attempt to defend the recent count of the American people...
Thomas Pettitt has surrendered the court tennis championship of the world and presented it to Saunders of England. Pettit says he is unable to afford the time necessary to defend the title...