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... dangers of such fine things as Idealism , Pity and Indignation . Of course , among these little essays there is none whose germs were not latent in my mind before August , 1914 ; but neither is there one which , before that date , would ...
... dangers of such fine things as Idealism , Pity and Indignation . Of course , among these little essays there is none whose germs were not latent in my mind before August , 1914 ; but neither is there one which , before that date , would ...
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... danger was its danger as a portion of the whole war - im- perilled world , instead of seeing only my country's danger at the enemy's hands , and calling that a danger to civilization and the future . I have said that my views were the ...
... danger was its danger as a portion of the whole war - im- perilled world , instead of seeing only my country's danger at the enemy's hands , and calling that a danger to civilization and the future . I have said that my views were the ...
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... dangerous present . Foremost among those realities unrecognized during the war is what was happening among all those peoples before they were in . I mean in the years when war , instead of overwhelming and transforming all their ...
... dangerous present . Foremost among those realities unrecognized during the war is what was happening among all those peoples before they were in . I mean in the years when war , instead of overwhelming and transforming all their ...
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... dangerous to suggest a divided responsibility , or anything short of complete innocence on the part of one's own country and one's own allies . And the most sceptical men , those most disinclined to admit the necessity of joining in ...
... dangerous to suggest a divided responsibility , or anything short of complete innocence on the part of one's own country and one's own allies . And the most sceptical men , those most disinclined to admit the necessity of joining in ...
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... dangerous as these alleged impersonalities . It is , of course , true that Principles and Ideals , especially in their humbler forms of standards , usages and commandments , can steady man against the buffets of passion and the floods ...
... dangerous as these alleged impersonalities . It is , of course , true that Principles and Ideals , especially in their humbler forms of standards , usages and commandments , can steady man against the buffets of passion and the floods ...
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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.