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Page xxxix
... adversaries are one large half . Such vital exchanges between nations cannot be based ( any more than the vital exchanges of our bodies upon poisons ) upon the bad , the destructive sides of those peoples which war had turned towards us ...
... adversaries are one large half . Such vital exchanges between nations cannot be based ( any more than the vital exchanges of our bodies upon poisons ) upon the bad , the destructive sides of those peoples which war had turned towards us ...
Page xlvi
... adversary and evade our own , is flying in the face of this Reality whose unbroken continuity admits of no undivided , no unrecipro- cated responsibilities even for trifling , momentary mishaps ; how much less for vast , long - prepared ...
... adversary and evade our own , is flying in the face of this Reality whose unbroken continuity admits of no undivided , no unrecipro- cated responsibilities even for trifling , momentary mishaps ; how much less for vast , long - prepared ...
Page xlvii
... at last of his congenital blindness . Which , being interpreted , means mankind's recognizing that the adversary against which it spends itself is its own re- flected image , or , when more tangible , its INTRODUCTION xlvii.
... at last of his congenital blindness . Which , being interpreted , means mankind's recognizing that the adversary against which it spends itself is its own re- flected image , or , when more tangible , its INTRODUCTION xlvii.
Page 116
... ADVERSARY Furthermore , I have wanted to discuss the nature of Satan with my Reader , but first and foremost with myself , because it has been borne in upon me that in Time of War we all incline to take for granted that the Adversary is ...
... ADVERSARY Furthermore , I have wanted to discuss the nature of Satan with my Reader , but first and foremost with myself , because it has been borne in upon me that in Time of War we all incline to take for granted that the Adversary is ...
Page 117
... Adversary " second ; while they - the patriotic persons of all this tormented globe - invariably put " Adversary first and " Satan " second . So that while my meaning is that we must never leave off struggling with Satan wheresoever he ...
... Adversary " second ; while they - the patriotic persons of all this tormented globe - invariably put " Adversary first and " Satan " second . So that while my meaning is that we must never leave off struggling with Satan wheresoever he ...
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