Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intimé of Henri Frédéric Amiel, Tr., with an Introducion and Notes |
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Page 114
... Society engenders certain frightful evils - prostitution , vagabondage , rogues , thieves , convicts , war , revolutionary clubs and barricades . She ought to impress this fact on her mind , and not treat all those who come in contact ...
... Society engenders certain frightful evils - prostitution , vagabondage , rogues , thieves , convicts , war , revolutionary clubs and barricades . She ought to impress this fact on her mind , and not treat all those who come in contact ...
Page 217
... society possible without regulation , without control , without limitations on individual liberty , above all without moral limitations , the peoples which are legally the freest do well to take their religious consciousness for check ...
... society possible without regulation , without control , without limitations on individual liberty , above all without moral limitations , the peoples which are legally the freest do well to take their religious consciousness for check ...
Page 233
... society , in opposition to the Latin principle , which regards the individual as a thing , a means to an end , an instru- ment of the church or of the state . In the order and harmony which would result from free adhesion and voluntary ...
... society , in opposition to the Latin principle , which regards the individual as a thing , a means to an end , an instru- ment of the church or of the state . In the order and harmony which would result from free adhesion and voluntary ...
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