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" But the contact with pure unmitigated savagery, with primitive nature and primitive man, brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart. "
The Ruling Passion: British Colonial Allegory and the Paradox of Homosexual ... - Page vii
by Christopher Lane - 1995 - 326 pages
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Cosmopolis: An International Monthly Review ..., Volume 6

1897 - 934 pages
...irresistible fqrçç qf it? institutions and of its morals, in the power of its police and of its opinion. But the contact with pure unmitigated savagery, with primitive...thoughts, of one's sensations ; to the negation of the habitua!, which is safe, there is added the affirmation of the unusual, which is dangerous ; a suggestion...
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Tales of Unrest

Joseph Conrad - Adventure stories - 1898 - 368 pages
...irresistible force of its institutions and of its morals, in the power of its police and of its opinion. But the contact with pure unmitigated savagery, with primitive...kind, to the clear perception of the loneliness of onc-'s thoughts, of one's sensations — to the negation of the habitual, which is safe, there is added...
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Tales of Unrest

Joseph Conrad - Adventure stories, English - 1898 - 368 pages
...irresistible force of its institutions and of its morals, in the power of its police and of its opinion. But the contact with pure unmitigated savagery, with primitive...the heart. To the sentiment of being alone of one's 150 kind, to the clear perception of the loneliness of one's thoughts, of one's sensations i —to...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 217

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1912 - 652 pages
...morals, in the power of its police and of its opinion. Bat the contact with pore unmitigated ¿vagery, with primitive nature and primitive man, brings sudden...alone of one's kind, to the clear perception of the lonelinese of one's thoughts, of one's asusations, to the negation of the habitual, which is safe,...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 276

Literature - 1913 - 874 pages
...Irresistible force of its institutions aud of its morals, in the power of Its police and of its opinion. But the contact with pure unmitigated savagery, with primitive...Into the heart To the sentiment of being alone of ones kind, to the clear perception of the loneliness of one's thoughts, of one's sensations, to the...
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The Morality of Nations: An Essay on the Theory of Politics

Cecil Delisle Burns - Ethics - 1915 - 278 pages
...of its morals, in the power of its 1 Pol., ijijasff. 2 Pol., 13103. R police and of its opinion. But the contact with pure unmitigated savagery, with primitive...and profound trouble into the heart. . . . To the negation of the habitual, which is safe, there is added the affirmation of the unusual, which is dangerous...
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Complete Works, Volume 8

Joseph Conrad - 1920 - 230 pages
...jrrp«is|ifr1p fmw ofits institutions ancj, .of its morals, in, the power of its police~5hd of its opinion. But the contact with pure' unmitigated savagery, with...brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart- f To the sentiment of being alone of one's kind, to the clear perception of the loneliness of one's...
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Conrad's Western World

Norman Sherry - History - 1971 - 484 pages
...their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings . . . the contact with pure unmitigated savagery, with primitive...brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart' ('An Outpost of Progress ', Tales of Unrest, p. 89). 2 Cf. also the delay over Hodister's supply steamer...
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Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, and the Fin de Siècle

1991 - 288 pages
...irresistible force of its institutions and of its morals, in the power of its police and of its opinion. But the contact with pure unmitigated savagery, with primitive...brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart- (p. 89) Conrad puts forward a double thesis in this passage. First, the "civilized" individual is not...
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Joseph Conrad and the Anthropological Dilemma: "bewildered Traveller"

John Wylie Griffith - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 262 pages
...of its morals, in the power of its police and of its opinion. But the contact with pure unmitigated nature and primitive man, brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart. (OP 89) The behaviour of people such as Kayerts and Carlier is based upon the constrictions of the...
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