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Page 53
... Maggie's plea for help with uncompromising cruelty , his positive and negative qualities stand out like light and shade in an angular sculpture harshly lit. Maggie , by way of deliberate contrast , is like G. F. Watts's ' Eurydice ...
... Maggie's plea for help with uncompromising cruelty , his positive and negative qualities stand out like light and shade in an angular sculpture harshly lit. Maggie , by way of deliberate contrast , is like G. F. Watts's ' Eurydice ...
Page 66
... Maggie's rejection of him expresses an uncompromis- ing repudiation of a cultural modernity which was , and is , genuinely seductive . What Stephen stands for is certainly not to be lightly dismissed . He speaks out , after all , in ...
... Maggie's rejection of him expresses an uncompromis- ing repudiation of a cultural modernity which was , and is , genuinely seductive . What Stephen stands for is certainly not to be lightly dismissed . He speaks out , after all , in ...
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... Maggie's relations with Philip and Stephen can never acquire the intensity or moral importance of her relations with Tom . For the same reason , Tom's guilt and punishment alike , even though in a sense deter- mined by the biological ...
... Maggie's relations with Philip and Stephen can never acquire the intensity or moral importance of her relations with Tom . For the same reason , Tom's guilt and punishment alike , even though in a sense deter- mined by the biological ...
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Morality and religion | 17 |
Heredity and psychology | 38 |
the challenge of Marxs Theses on Feuerbach | 103 |
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