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Page xi
... Waste . One knew such subjects were there ; one knew there was a question called War ; but covered it all over with other thoughts , more agreeable to one's private contemplation and fitter for exhibition to one's friends . Nowadays I ...
... Waste . One knew such subjects were there ; one knew there was a question called War ; but covered it all over with other thoughts , more agreeable to one's private contemplation and fitter for exhibition to one's friends . Nowadays I ...
Page xii
... waste for self and others . They may , I cannot but hope , provide us with hardier stocks whereon to graft the over - costly , the artificial and unstable , flowers and fruits of such happiness and hope as we have hitherto enjoyed ...
... waste for self and others . They may , I cannot but hope , provide us with hardier stocks whereon to graft the over - costly , the artificial and unstable , flowers and fruits of such happiness and hope as we have hitherto enjoyed ...
Page xlv
... waste of words . But for people to go on seeing things only from the side of their own nation or alliance ; to go on feeling only sorrow , admiration and trustfulness for one set of countries , only suspicion , nay execration , for the ...
... waste of words . But for people to go on seeing things only from the side of their own nation or alliance ; to go on feeling only sorrow , admiration and trustfulness for one set of countries , only suspicion , nay execration , for the ...
Page xlvii
... waste of human virtue , is that the world needs rather than such altruism as is expressed in self - sacrifice , a different kind of altruism which is recognition of the other ( for alter is Latin for other ) , sides , aspects ...
... waste of human virtue , is that the world needs rather than such altruism as is expressed in self - sacrifice , a different kind of altruism which is recognition of the other ( for alter is Latin for other ) , sides , aspects ...
Page l
... Waste ; how it comes about , how it may be minimized . It is for them , as well as for my solitary self , that I have set up my allegoric puppet - show and pulled the strings of my archangelic marionette labelled Satan , the Waster of ...
... Waste ; how it comes about , how it may be minimized . It is for them , as well as for my solitary self , that I have set up my allegoric puppet - show and pulled the strings of my archangelic marionette labelled Satan , the Waster of ...
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2ND VOICE Adventure Adversary æsthetic AGES-TO-COME altruism Ballet Master Death become belief belligerent Bertrand Russell Brachycephalous Brobdingnag Cæsarea called cinema shows creatures dance dangerous dear Clio decent Delusion and Confusion desire emotional enemy evil existence eyes fact feeling friends future German Gog and Magog gramophone wheezes habits hand happens harmonium Hatred hence Heroism honour horror human Idealism implies Indignation individual IST VOICE Justice kind larning less look Lord Satan man's mankind means merely mind moral moralists moreover Muse of History Nations nature neighbours never once one's Orchestra ourselves passions Patriotism peace perhaps persons play poor preference present qualities Reality reason recognize religion require result Romain Rolland sacrifice self-sacrifice sense side soul spiritual suffering sure Themistocles things thought tion truth turn war's Waste Waster Widow Fear words writing