Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... American titles . They are " blues " variations on a universal theme improvised from Faulk- nerian courthouses to Chekhovian manors . The axes ' thud in the cherry orchard of Western civilization provides the syncopation for both ...
... American titles . They are " blues " variations on a universal theme improvised from Faulk- nerian courthouses to Chekhovian manors . The axes ' thud in the cherry orchard of Western civilization provides the syncopation for both ...
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... American professor who had enriched the study of American literature and culture chose to die in the Roman fashion when it was incontrovertible that the pro- longation of his life would impose a strain upon his family and apparently ...
... American professor who had enriched the study of American literature and culture chose to die in the Roman fashion when it was incontrovertible that the pro- longation of his life would impose a strain upon his family and apparently ...
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... American standards of hospitality . The conversation , as with Parisian intelligents , ranged widely . When we came to the question of original sin , they listened patiently to my efforts to coin a maxim after the manner of La ...
... American standards of hospitality . The conversation , as with Parisian intelligents , ranged widely . When we came to the question of original sin , they listened patiently to my efforts to coin a maxim after the manner of La ...
Contents
Preface Foreword Poem Sonnet to Death Chapter I The Ferries at Bayhead Death as Natural Transition | 1 |
Last Things First Necessity of a Point of View | 11 |
God on Trial The Problem of Evil | 19 |
Copyright | |
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