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Page xxx
Such war delusions and war superstitions are, moreover, kept up by one of the
unsuspected causes which have kept up the war itself: the gratification afforded
thereby to cravings usually unsatisfied. I am not speaking of the desire for
bullying ...
Such war delusions and war superstitions are, moreover, kept up by one of the
unsuspected causes which have kept up the war itself: the gratification afforded
thereby to cravings usually unsatisfied. I am not speaking of the desire for
bullying ...
Page xxxix
We see, we feel, our aims with steady intensity because they are part of
ourselves, because they are our desire and our effort. We seek our means in
what is not ourselves, and therefore interests us only with reference to us. Hence
we do not ...
We see, we feel, our aims with steady intensity because they are part of
ourselves, because they are our desire and our effort. We seek our means in
what is not ourselves, and therefore interests us only with reference to us. Hence
we do not ...
Page xlix
... the Modernists; likewise against that tendency d la Nietzsche, but also (derived
from Renan) a la Sorel the Syndicalist, to make life minister to aesthetic desire for
dramatic or “distinguished” posturing, and for crimson and azure backgrounds; ...
... the Modernists; likewise against that tendency d la Nietzsche, but also (derived
from Renan) a la Sorel the Syndicalist, to make life minister to aesthetic desire for
dramatic or “distinguished” posturing, and for crimson and azure backgrounds; ...
Page 79
And once this desire is fulfilled, they will naturally benefit by all the progress we
have since achieved. They will participate in our administration and be shielded
by our laws; and, of course, our beneficent system of commercial and industrial ...
And once this desire is fulfilled, they will naturally benefit by all the progress we
have since achieved. They will participate in our administration and be shielded
by our laws; and, of course, our beneficent system of commercial and industrial ...
Page 119
Thus, if I call Waste and Barren Sacrifice Satan, it is because I hate it; because
my mind and my nerves become tense with desire to destroy at the bare thought
of it. But, surely, the Adversary may be, may really be, evil, satanic Of course, and
...
Thus, if I call Waste and Barren Sacrifice Satan, it is because I hate it; because
my mind and my nerves become tense with desire to destroy at the bare thought
of it. But, surely, the Adversary may be, may really be, evil, satanic Of course, and
...
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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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