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Bibliographic source

Work

The Ethics of Belief

Author

William Kingdon Clifford

First publication

The Contemporary Review, 1877

Source edition

Lectures and Essays, vol. 2, ed. Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock, London: Macmillan and Co., 1879, pp. 177-211

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