Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens.
The sentence above is from Bertrand Russell What I Have Lived for. Does so far as they were possible here mean as far as possible?
s o far as they were possible The idea is 'to the extent that it is possible to get love and knowledge'.
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so far as they were possible
The idea is 'to the extent that it is possible to get love and knowledge'.