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cal function of the aesthetic faculty. On the alleged 

 uselessness of this phase of the human mind A. J. Bal- 

 four has recently based an argument for the immortal- 

 ity of the soul. This view is strikingly at variance 

 with that which inclines to identify it with that mental 

 process which creates scientific theories and thus paves 

 the way for the adjustment of posterity to earthly 

 conditions. 



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