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Page 283
... complete , clear , beautiful , and tragic . It is vivid and truthful in its detail , sublime in its march and in its harmony . This is not poetry where the parts are better than the whole . Here , as in some great symphony , everything ...
... complete , clear , beautiful , and tragic . It is vivid and truthful in its detail , sublime in its march and in its harmony . This is not poetry where the parts are better than the whole . Here , as in some great symphony , everything ...
Page 441
... complete explanation of every state of the universe is now generally represented as logically absurd . Determinism in this extreme form seems plausible only at a time when the possibilities of complete scien- tific explanation are ...
... complete explanation of every state of the universe is now generally represented as logically absurd . Determinism in this extreme form seems plausible only at a time when the possibilities of complete scien- tific explanation are ...
Page 552
... complete solution of his incomplete life , he should find him- self not only less complete than ever and more wayward but actually peril- ously incoherent , with a personality on the verge of dissipation . He lives in a haunted vertigo ...
... complete solution of his incomplete life , he should find him- self not only less complete than ever and more wayward but actually peril- ously incoherent , with a personality on the verge of dissipation . He lives in a haunted vertigo ...
Contents
HOMER The Iliad or The Poem of Force | 3 |
HOMER Odysseus Scar | 30 |
AESCHYLUS Introduction to the Oresteia | 51 |
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