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Page vii
... mind : symbolical figures , grotesquely em- bodying what seems too multifold and fluctuating , also too unendurable , to be taken stock of . A European war was going on which , from my point of view , was all about nothing at all ...
... mind : symbolical figures , grotesquely em- bodying what seems too multifold and fluctuating , also too unendurable , to be taken stock of . A European war was going on which , from my point of view , was all about nothing at all ...
Page x
... mind before August , 1914 ; but neither is there one which , before that date , would not have remained unwritten , unthought - out , avoided . Certainly their thought evaded : e.g. the queries , nay certainties , concerning Patriotism ...
... mind before August , 1914 ; but neither is there one which , before that date , would not have remained unwritten , unthought - out , avoided . Certainly their thought evaded : e.g. the queries , nay certainties , concerning Patriotism ...
Page xi
... mind from them ; they alone are of the uninviting stuff reality has shown itself to be once war had ploughed up its thin specious surface . Yes , indeed ; this crop of thoughts for which war's ravages have made room , and which war's ...
... mind from them ; they alone are of the uninviting stuff reality has shown itself to be once war had ploughed up its thin specious surface . Yes , indeed ; this crop of thoughts for which war's ravages have made room , and which war's ...
Page xiii
... mind from which my attitude results are often remote , complicated and by no means always orthodox . Moreover , there is at the bottom of it a large share of what is merely negative , a minus in my case of influences , dogmas ...
... mind from which my attitude results are often remote , complicated and by no means always orthodox . Moreover , there is at the bottom of it a large share of what is merely negative , a minus in my case of influences , dogmas ...
Page xxi
... minds of all the warring peoples , interposing the same veil of passionate or expedient delusion between them . and what had really happened , what was really happening and what , unless they recognized their common mistakes , must ...
... minds of all the warring peoples , interposing the same veil of passionate or expedient delusion between them . and what had really happened , what was really happening and what , unless they recognized their common mistakes , must ...
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