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... feel the pain and loss , and that limitation means that he must feel it regardless . Bad , if we were in charge of the universe ( for Johnson is no apologist for the reality of unjust suffering ) ; good , from below , since it is the ...
... feel the pain and loss , and that limitation means that he must feel it regardless . Bad , if we were in charge of the universe ( for Johnson is no apologist for the reality of unjust suffering ) ; good , from below , since it is the ...
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... feel many evils which he had no power to avoid , and to fear many which he shall never feel : there will surely come a time , when every capacity of happiness shall be filled , and none shall be wretched but by his own fault . In the ...
... feel many evils which he had no power to avoid , and to fear many which he shall never feel : there will surely come a time , when every capacity of happiness shall be filled , and none shall be wretched but by his own fault . In the ...
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... feel sorry inside for each other . But Johnson's last move is still to keep the transmuted feeling inside ourselves , because finally , in place of self - pity , the pity we would exercise for others like ourselves is retained within as ...
... feel sorry inside for each other . But Johnson's last move is still to keep the transmuted feeling inside ourselves , because finally , in place of self - pity , the pity we would exercise for others like ourselves is retained within as ...
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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