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Page 94
... selfishness , and rude- ness ; that there would be children idling , disturbing each other , and being disorderly . I knew it had to be so , because that is the way children are in the aggregate when left to themselves in the ordinary ...
... selfishness , and rude- ness ; that there would be children idling , disturbing each other , and being disorderly . I knew it had to be so , because that is the way children are in the aggregate when left to themselves in the ordinary ...
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... selfishness must needs be a potent principle of social disintegration , for men who are held together by regard for their own material interests will always be ready to quarrel among them- selves . Of all organised communities the one ...
... selfishness must needs be a potent principle of social disintegration , for men who are held together by regard for their own material interests will always be ready to quarrel among them- selves . Of all organised communities the one ...
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... our complex life , the path is hard to find and easy to lose . Selfishness mistakes itself in all sincerity for unselfishness , and a hideous crime may even pose as a heroic act . That Germany should THE PHILOSOPHY OF MY OLD AGE 207.
... our complex life , the path is hard to find and easy to lose . Selfishness mistakes itself in all sincerity for unselfishness , and a hideous crime may even pose as a heroic act . That Germany should THE PHILOSOPHY OF MY OLD AGE 207.
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SOCIALISM AND EDUCATION 1912 | 1 |
PROFESSOR EUCKEN AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SELFREALISA | 36 |
IDEALS OF LIFE AND EDUCATIONGERMAN AND ENGLISH | 54 |
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