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... death , loved but not exhausted by the poets , should be so patently ignored . If Christ is dying to the world he is doing so without the benefit of the slow , rich brooding over death which might have been expected if the author had ...
... death , loved but not exhausted by the poets , should be so patently ignored . If Christ is dying to the world he is doing so without the benefit of the slow , rich brooding over death which might have been expected if the author had ...
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... death ” but death . The reader is likely at the moment to be impressed more by the apparent absoluteness of the trap than by its representing a sharp decline in the moral drama . This is as it should be , for even a moral drama should ...
... death ” but death . The reader is likely at the moment to be impressed more by the apparent absoluteness of the trap than by its representing a sharp decline in the moral drama . This is as it should be , for even a moral drama should ...
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... death toward something more defined , at least by negatives , by the kinds of death he has refused to accept . If we think ahead we may surmise that there is further definition still to come and a further stage of feeling . If we think ...
... death toward something more defined , at least by negatives , by the kinds of death he has refused to accept . If we think ahead we may surmise that there is further definition still to come and a further stage of feeling . If we think ...
Contents
SOME PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS | 3 |
THE VIRTUES | 17 |
PREPARATIONS AND THE FIRST ENCOUNTER | 36 |
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