Satan, the Waster: A Philosophic War Trilogy with Notes & Introduction |
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... 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 long years of our short human life ...
... 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 long years of our short human life ...
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... belief , and more especially by suffering . As to belief , the same objection is made against everyone who disbelieves a religious creed . As regards suffering I maintain that all the suffering of the war does not fall under the heading ...
... belief , and more especially by suffering . As to belief , the same objection is made against everyone who disbelieves a religious creed . As regards suffering I maintain that all the suffering of the war does not fall under the heading ...
Page xix
... belief , my not being in has allowed me to see . Chief among these are the circumstances and feelings by which certain facts con- cerning the war , or rather concerning all the belligerents engaged in it , were hidden or disguised from ...
... belief , my not being in has allowed me to see . Chief among these are the circumstances and feelings by which certain facts con- cerning the war , or rather concerning all the belligerents engaged in it , were hidden or disguised from ...
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... belief that the other party must have wanted and willed it . For when men and women are suddenly called on to brace their wills to self - defence , they unlearn whatever slight habit they may have had of thinking in terms other than ...
... belief that the other party must have wanted and willed it . For when men and women are suddenly called on to brace their wills to self - defence , they unlearn whatever slight habit they may have had of thinking in terms other than ...
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... believing , and then from seeing or hearing , anything which , if it impaired his country's faith in its entire ... belief in one's country's complete righteousness has other sources besides dread of assuming responsibility in such ...
... believing , and then from seeing or hearing , anything which , if it impaired his country's faith in its entire ... belief in one's country's complete righteousness has other sources besides dread of assuming responsibility in such ...
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action allow already answer Ballet Ballet Master become beginning belief better called cause Clio comes common Confusion course dance dear Death Delusion desire emotional enemy evil existence experience eyes fact fear feeling friends future German give given gramophone habits hand happens Hatred head hence Heroism History human Idealism individual interest Italy keep kind least less living look Lord man's mankind manner means merely mind moral moreover MUSE Nations nature never notes object once one's Orchestra ourselves passions past Patriotism peace perhaps persons play poor possible preference present qualities question Reality reason recognize remain require result SATAN seems sense side soul speaking suffering sure tell things thought tion true truth turn universe virtue VOICE Waste whole writing
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Page 276 - For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Page xx - Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: For thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
Page 53 - Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
Page 163 - The process of making winds and rivers into anthropomorphic gods is, for the most part, not the result of using the imagination with special vigour. It is the result of not doing so. The wind is obviously alive ; any fool can see that. Being alive, it blows ; how ? why, naturally ; just as you and I blow. It knocks things down, it shouts and dances, it whispers and talks.
Page 131 - And I, what I seem to my friend, you see: What I soon shall seem to his love, you guess: What I seem to myself, do you ask of me? No hero, I confess. XII. Tis an awkward thing to play with souls, And matter enough to save one's own: Yet think of my friend, and the burning coals He played with for bits of stone!
Page 237 - Tutto, signor ; le ceneri degli avi , Le sacre leggi , i tutelari Numi , La favella, i costumi , Il sudor che mi costa , Lo splendor che ne trassi , L'aria, i tronchi , il terren, le mura, i, sassi.
Page 209 - Vieux soldats de plomb que nous sommes, Au cordeau nous alignant tous , Si des rangs sortent quelques hommes , • Tous nous crions : A bas les fous ! On les persécute, on les tue ; Sauf, après un lent examen , A leur dresser une statue , Pour la gloire du genre humain.
Page xx - And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.
Page xx - Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand : for the king is not he that can do any thing against you.
Page 57 - Do you see the Labour Leader? The other papers all refused to take Vernon Lee's and Bertrand Russell's articles.' ' SATAN (bows benignly towards DEATH). You might have trusted Satan, dear Ballet Master Death! Pity and Indignation can renew Death's Dance when all Nations have danced themselves to stumps, and the ordinary band, save perhaps Widow Fear and her children, can fiddle and blow no longer.