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... sentence ; as though he were forced to read off and then verbally transmit the inferred lessons of life in lieu of that Eternal Master , the Great Author , who , we are tempted to think , ought to be offering us juster life - sentences ...
... sentence ; as though he were forced to read off and then verbally transmit the inferred lessons of life in lieu of that Eternal Master , the Great Author , who , we are tempted to think , ought to be offering us juster life - sentences ...
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... sentence tries to go past it . But it is the link word ' which ' that does even more damage to our delusions , even as ' while ' tries to temporize : ' excuses , which , while we admit them , we know to be absurd ' . So it is too in the ...
... sentence tries to go past it . But it is the link word ' which ' that does even more damage to our delusions , even as ' while ' tries to temporize : ' excuses , which , while we admit them , we know to be absurd ' . So it is too in the ...
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... sentence one to the more many- minded ' or ' in alternation in sentence two . The richness of sentence two bespeaks a mind able to reconcile itself to the varied plausibilities of a relativism without being harassed into not treating ...
... sentence one to the more many- minded ' or ' in alternation in sentence two . The richness of sentence two bespeaks a mind able to reconcile itself to the varied plausibilities of a relativism without being harassed into not treating ...
Contents
Almost every man will be found to have enlisted | 10 |
Discoursing like an angel living like a | 21 |
The System of Life | 42 |
Copyright | |
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