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Page viii
... the Nations . Alas , correcting that epilogue after the Armistice and the signing of Peace , I have had to end once more with a more hopeful view on the part of Satan . Meanwhile , who and what was Satan ? And what viii SATAN THE WASTER.
... the Nations . Alas , correcting that epilogue after the Armistice and the signing of Peace , I have had to end once more with a more hopeful view on the part of Satan . Meanwhile , who and what was Satan ? And what viii SATAN THE WASTER.
Page ix
... moral but immoral Essays , are made out of such thereof as I have gathered during these five years . For , just as every peaceful , pleasant garden means that cer- tain plants have been sown , grafted and tended ; INTRODUCTION ix.
... moral but immoral Essays , are made out of such thereof as I have gathered during these five years . For , just as every peaceful , pleasant garden means that cer- tain plants have been sown , grafted and tended ; INTRODUCTION ix.
Page x
... peace had not allowed a chance . Not allowed , because , you see , there were all those decorous , pleasant flowers and fruits one wished to cultivate , a well - stocked garden of optimistic tradition such as required only the tending ...
... peace had not allowed a chance . Not allowed , because , you see , there were all those decorous , pleasant flowers and fruits one wished to cultivate , a well - stocked garden of optimistic tradition such as required only the tending ...
Page xii
... peace - gardens sweet with less waste for self and others . They may , I cannot but hope , provide us with hardier stocks whereon to graft the over - costly , the artificial and unstable , flowers and fruits of such happiness and hope ...
... peace - gardens sweet with less waste for self and others . They may , I cannot but hope , provide us with hardier stocks whereon to graft the over - costly , the artificial and unstable , flowers and fruits of such happiness and hope ...
Page xviii
... peace and look upon the victory of either side as the victory only of war . There are people to whom the war itself has been the greatest suffering , as the fear of it had the greatest fear , of all their life . But granting xviii SATAN ...
... peace and look upon the victory of either side as the victory only of war . There are people to whom the war itself has been the greatest suffering , as the fear of it had the greatest fear , of all their life . But granting xviii SATAN ...
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