Satan, the Waster: A Philosophic War Trilogy with Notes & Introduction |
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Page ix
... spiritual , I will not say flowers , nor even fruits , but just vege- tation , of thoughts . And these Notes , which some readers might call not moral but immoral Essays , are made out of such thereof as I have gathered during these ...
... spiritual , I will not say flowers , nor even fruits , but just vege- tation , of thoughts . And these Notes , which some readers might call not moral but immoral Essays , are made out of such thereof as I have gathered during these ...
Page x
... spiritual gardens we used to cultivate , and for which the war has substituted , in my case at least , growths of thought so very different , those which have been distilled into this play , and gathered for other folk to distil in the ...
... spiritual gardens we used to cultivate , and for which the war has substituted , in my case at least , growths of thought so very different , those which have been distilled into this play , and gathered for other folk to distil in the ...
Page xi
... spiritual life may be , and what the soil , or if you prefer so to call it , the mud of Reality , in which even the noblest life must needs root . It is something in their favour , I mean in favour of such thoughts and facts as these ...
... spiritual life may be , and what the soil , or if you prefer so to call it , the mud of Reality , in which even the noblest life must needs root . It is something in their favour , I mean in favour of such thoughts and facts as these ...
Page xvi
... spiritual participation by single individuals no less than collective participation by every belligerent Nation , especially my own , these convictions concerning the war's origins and results , these judgments of its moral value ...
... spiritual participation by single individuals no less than collective participation by every belligerent Nation , especially my own , these convictions concerning the war's origins and results , these judgments of its moral value ...
Page xx
... spiritual participation in the war prevented those who did participate from seeing the realities of the case ; and in so far prevented their taking the steps towards peace which those unperceived realities demanded . Since , such at ...
... spiritual participation in the war prevented those who did participate from seeing the realities of the case ; and in so far prevented their taking the steps towards peace which those unperceived realities demanded . Since , such at ...
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