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Page 128
... commitment to one person and one life . Someone outside life , someone looking down on the planet or on the verge of existence , might find it incredible that human beings take this particular risk again and again , as if it were ( what ...
... commitment to one person and one life . Someone outside life , someone looking down on the planet or on the verge of existence , might find it incredible that human beings take this particular risk again and again , as if it were ( what ...
Page 184
... commitment , ' the gentle affections , if he had felt them , would be accounted tameness ' ; for such a man ' values not feelings which he cannot employ as weapons or as engines ' ( p . 144 ) . Clearly Foster had his own subdued ...
... commitment , ' the gentle affections , if he had felt them , would be accounted tameness ' ; for such a man ' values not feelings which he cannot employ as weapons or as engines ' ( p . 144 ) . Clearly Foster had his own subdued ...
Page 286
... commitment to the meaning of sanity ; for compatibility is always , in Johnson's ordinary faith , the barely visible test of a religion that can be lived out . But it is a risk and a commitment , that thus can give madness a possible ...
... commitment to the meaning of sanity ; for compatibility is always , in Johnson's ordinary faith , the barely visible test of a religion that can be lived out . But it is a risk and a commitment , that thus can give madness a possible ...
Contents
Almost every man will be found to have enlisted | 10 |
Discoursing like an angel living like a | 21 |
The System of Life | 42 |
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