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Page viii
... turning on his side to sleep his Sunday's sleep , had kept an eye on the little doings in embassies and public offices and in the sanctums of armament - mongers and concession - hunters and newspaper - trusts . Recognizing this , it ...
... turning on his side to sleep his Sunday's sleep , had kept an eye on the little doings in embassies and public offices and in the sanctums of armament - mongers and concession - hunters and newspaper - trusts . Recognizing this , it ...
Page xii
... turning out to have been as deluded about it all as the people with whose convictions I happen to disagree . One point , however , there is on which no one can deny that I do see matters as they are , namely , the offence which the ...
... turning out to have been as deluded about it all as the people with whose convictions I happen to disagree . One point , however , there is on which no one can deny that I do see matters as they are , namely , the offence which the ...
Page xiv
... turn round the earth , climb to the zenith and plunge below the horizon . Nor can I demonstrate to others that it does no such thing ; that they themselves , the earth on which we are standing , are doing that going round . They feel ...
... turn round the earth , climb to the zenith and plunge below the horizon . Nor can I demonstrate to others that it does no such thing ; that they themselves , the earth on which we are standing , are doing that going round . They feel ...
Page xxii
... turning defence into offence ; and you get the appearance that each people is attacked , or threatened with an attack which seems the more monstrous that every people has , up to that moment , been thinking of something else . Thus we ...
... turning defence into offence ; and you get the appearance that each people is attacked , or threatened with an attack which seems the more monstrous that every people has , up to that moment , been thinking of something else . Thus we ...
Page xxix
... turning out to coincide partially or even wholly with real facts . It is not lack of such coincidence with real facts which constitutes a delusion or superstition ; what does , is that the belief , to which we must apply either of these ...
... turning out to coincide partially or even wholly with real facts . It is not lack of such coincidence with real facts which constitutes a delusion or superstition ; what does , is that the belief , to which we must apply either of these ...
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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