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Page x
I did not, in prewar years, like thinking about Hatred, Self-Righteousness and
Righteousness and Fear; barely about Confusion and Delusion; least of all about
the spuriousness and dangers of such fine things as Idealism, Pity and
Indignation.
I did not, in prewar years, like thinking about Hatred, Self-Righteousness and
Righteousness and Fear; barely about Confusion and Delusion; least of all about
the spuriousness and dangers of such fine things as Idealism, Pity and
Indignation.
Page xv
During four long years of our short human life, they have been killing and
mutilating, starving, ruining and widowing their thousands and hundreds of
thousands; devastating the world no less with hatred and hatred's falsehoods.
For that is war.
During four long years of our short human life, they have been killing and
mutilating, starving, ruining and widowing their thousands and hundreds of
thousands; devastating the world no less with hatred and hatred's falsehoods.
For that is war.
Page xvii
... imitation of enemy by enemy: conscription, trenches, poison gases,
submarines, air-raids, propaganda of hatred, atrocity mongering, coalition
government and postal censure having given Britain and Germany and France,
Austria and Italy, ...
... imitation of enemy by enemy: conscription, trenches, poison gases,
submarines, air-raids, propaganda of hatred, atrocity mongering, coalition
government and postal censure having given Britain and Germany and France,
Austria and Italy, ...
Page xxviii
Now the continuation of that game of war depends upon such an unceasing
output of favourable beliefs, on such keeping up of all the passions of pride and
hatred, fear, and aggressiveness, as make the fighting nations willingly pour out
more ...
Now the continuation of that game of war depends upon such an unceasing
output of favourable beliefs, on such keeping up of all the passions of pride and
hatred, fear, and aggressiveness, as make the fighting nations willingly pour out
more ...
Page 7
So that the necessary pretexts and arguments for hatred have, like the painted
scenery of an earthly play-house, accumulated on my hands from age to age,
ready to shift from side to side. Thus in the coming Ballet you will recognize, not ...
So that the necessary pretexts and arguments for hatred have, like the painted
scenery of an earthly play-house, accumulated on my hands from age to age,
ready to shift from side to side. Thus in the coming Ballet you will recognize, not ...
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| Title | Satan, the Waster: A Philosophic War Trilogy with Notes & Introduction |
| Author | Vernon Lee |
| Translated by | Vernon Lee |
| Publisher | John Lane, 1920 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 11 Dec 2007 |
| Length | 298 pages |
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