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Político y médico estadounidense (1729-1795)
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“As the passions are the springs of most of our actions, a state of apathy has come to signify a sort of moral inertia, the absence of all activity or energy. According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason.”
“It is a fine observation of Plato in his Laws — that atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of the understanding.”
“Atheists are confounded with Pantheists, such as Xenophanes among the ancients, or Spinoza and Schelling among the moderns, who, instead of denying God, absorb everything into him.”
“A sense of grandeur and sublimity has been recognized as one of the reflex senses belonging to man. It is different from the sense of the beautiful, though closely allied to it. Beauty charms, sublimity moves us, and is often accompanied with a feeling resembling fear, while beauty rather attracts and draws us towards it.”
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El coronel William Fleming fue un médico, soldado, político y plantador estadounidense que sirvió como juez de paz local en las montañas del suroeste de Virginia y Kentucky, así como en el Senado de Virginia y brevemente actuó como gobernador de Virginia durante la Guerra de Independencia de Estados Unidos.
