Word: forbidding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...essentially "Applied idealism" and as thus applied to or superposed upon a mechanical view of nature, it must, like the Seventeenth Century philosophy, assign "low origin" to ideal things. Only the important matter for philosophy is that the "low origin," the mechanical aspect of nature, does not forbid for our modern doctrine the interpretation of nature in teleological terms. The mechanism embodies purposes...
...into the hall, and many had gone away discouraged. One of two courses must be taken-either only students can be allowed to hear his excellent course of lectures or a larger room must be found in which to deliver them. It is not fair to the students to forbid them to hear these lectures simply because the room is overcrowded...