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Page viii
... horrors and follies , there came signs that the very excess of them may prevent their renewal in the future . My first sketch of the epilogue concluded with the triumphant exclamations of Ballet Master Death , pulling himself together ...
... horrors and follies , there came signs that the very excess of them may prevent their renewal in the future . My first sketch of the epilogue concluded with the triumphant exclamations of Ballet Master Death , pulling himself together ...
Page xvi
... horror but with deliberate choice . And you , in this shallow satire of yours , represent this struggle between Good and Evil , this trial of strength between Justice and Injustice , as a mere collective world - cataclysm for which all ...
... horror but with deliberate choice . And you , in this shallow satire of yours , represent this struggle between Good and Evil , this trial of strength between Justice and Injustice , as a mere collective world - cataclysm for which all ...
Page xxii
... horror which is befalling them , they cannot but seek that cause , and therefore find it , in the adversary against whom they must sacrifice everything in supreme self - defence . Add to this psychological necessity the essential ...
... horror which is befalling them , they cannot but seek that cause , and therefore find it , in the adversary against whom they must sacrifice everything in supreme self - defence . Add to this psychological necessity the essential ...
Page xxvii
... horror as of the void , of feeling isolated , out in the cold . Similarly by that innate demand for fairness , which claims most especially that others should duly partake in whatever sacrifice oneself has made ; and all those insidious ...
... horror as of the void , of feeling isolated , out in the cold . Similarly by that innate demand for fairness , which claims most especially that others should duly partake in whatever sacrifice oneself has made ; and all those insidious ...
Page xxxii
... horror inherited from our own infancy and from that of our race . What self - respect- ing man or woman can openly refuse to bring a sacrifice for the common good , or will deliberately hold aloof from a good cause ? Now when the ...
... horror inherited from our own infancy and from that of our race . What self - respect- ing man or woman can openly refuse to bring a sacrifice for the common good , or will deliberately hold aloof from a good cause ? Now when the ...
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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