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Page ix
... Sacrifice and the recognition of Realities . So I found myself writing the prologue as an explanation , put into the mouth of Satan himself , of whatever philosophy of life my own life and my studies of professional philosophers had ...
... Sacrifice and the recognition of Realities . So I found myself writing the prologue as an explanation , put into the mouth of Satan himself , of whatever philosophy of life my own life and my studies of professional philosophers had ...
Page xi
... Sacrifice and Waste . One knew such subjects were there ; one knew there was a question called War ; but covered it all over with other thoughts , more agreeable to one's private contemplation and fitter for exhibition to one's friends ...
... Sacrifice and Waste . One knew such subjects were there ; one knew there was a question called War ; but covered it all over with other thoughts , more agreeable to one's private contemplation and fitter for exhibition to one's friends ...
Page xv
... sacrifice , and their conse- quent belief in that sacrifice's holiness , renders them sensitive to the smallest show of impiety or even scepticism towards a belief thus consecrated by their prodigious willing martyrdom . During four ...
... sacrifice , and their conse- quent belief in that sacrifice's holiness , renders them sensitive to the smallest show of impiety or even scepticism towards a belief thus consecrated by their prodigious willing martyrdom . During four ...
Page xxi
... sacrifices automatically set up in the 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 ...
... sacrifices automatically set up in the 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 ...
Page xxii
... sacrifice to the individuals composing those nations , hence nothing which could divert them from their private interests and feelings . Everybody agreed in the abstract that war was the common enemy of all mankind ; but it needed a ...
... sacrifice to the individuals composing those nations , hence nothing which could divert them from their private interests and feelings . Everybody agreed in the abstract that war was the common enemy of all mankind ; but it needed a ...
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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