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... seem to be the appointed help .. ... " Inaptitude " seems , indeed , to be rather too mild a word ; for when Arnold tried to reason abstrusely the result was extremely awkward . Take ( by way of touchstone ) , the following sentence ...
... seem to be the appointed help .. ... " Inaptitude " seems , indeed , to be rather too mild a word ; for when Arnold tried to reason abstrusely the result was extremely awkward . Take ( by way of touchstone ) , the following sentence ...
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... seems to have regarded the enfranchising power of virtue in two distinct ways : rationally , as a moral victory to be attained by means of psychological discipline leading to personal purity , and mystically , as an “ in- ward spring ...
... seems to have regarded the enfranchising power of virtue in two distinct ways : rationally , as a moral victory to be attained by means of psychological discipline leading to personal purity , and mystically , as an “ in- ward spring ...
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... seems to be intended and aimed at in the world , and which it is man's happiness to go along with or his misery to go counter to . " At one stroke , culture creates the certainty of the knowledge which it must apprehend and thus takes ...
... seems to be intended and aimed at in the world , and which it is man's happiness to go along with or his misery to go counter to . " At one stroke , culture creates the certainty of the knowledge which it must apprehend and thus takes ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE Introduction | 13 |
The Pathos of Young Death | 34 |
The Manifold Sorrow of Man | 52 |
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