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Page xci
... liberty the flower of necessity . ' Consciousness is the one fixed point in this boundless and bottomless gulf of things , and the soul's inward law , as it has been painfully elabo- rated by human history , the only revelation of God ...
... liberty the flower of necessity . ' Consciousness is the one fixed point in this boundless and bottomless gulf of things , and the soul's inward law , as it has been painfully elabo- rated by human history , the only revelation of God ...
Page xcii
... liberty ' . -Tout est bien , mon Dieu m'enveloppe : ' 6 - Nor is this all . It is not only that Amiel's inmost thought and affections are stayed on this conception of a holy will at the root of nature and destiny , in a certain very ...
... liberty ' . -Tout est bien , mon Dieu m'enveloppe : ' 6 - Nor is this all . It is not only that Amiel's inmost thought and affections are stayed on this conception of a holy will at the root of nature and destiny , in a certain very ...
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... liberty must be reconquered ; it is the Church which is heretical , the Church whose sight is troubled and her heart . timid . Whether we will or no , there is an esoteric doctrine , there is a relative revelation ; each man enters into ...
... liberty must be reconquered ; it is the Church which is heretical , the Church whose sight is troubled and her heart . timid . Whether we will or no , there is an esoteric doctrine , there is a relative revelation ; each man enters into ...
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... liberty , which enslaves me to things or obliges me to be other than I could and ought to be , all which injures ' my idea of the perfect man , hurts me mor- tally , degrades and wounds me in mind , even beforehand . I abhor useless ...
... liberty , which enslaves me to things or obliges me to be other than I could and ought to be , all which injures ' my idea of the perfect man , hurts me mor- tally , degrades and wounds me in mind , even beforehand . I abhor useless ...
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... liberty and hope , to slay sleep and happiness - this would be hell ! All that is necessary , providential — in short , unimputable — I could bear , I think , with some strength of mind . But responsi- bility mortally envenoms grief ...
... liberty and hope , to slay sleep and happiness - this would be hell ! All that is necessary , providential — in short , unimputable — I could bear , I think , with some strength of mind . But responsi- bility mortally envenoms grief ...
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