Satan, the Waster, a Philosophic War Trilogy with Notes & Introduction |
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Page xxv
... realities , the war's passions , have speedily turned such acquiescence into active conviction . But belief in one's country's complete righteousness has other sources besides dread of assuming responsibility in such terrible odds ...
... realities , the war's passions , have speedily turned such acquiescence into active conviction . But belief in one's country's complete righteousness has other sources besides dread of assuming responsibility in such terrible odds ...
Page xxxiii
... Reality , and one for which Reality will exact retribution - I must forestall some of the notes on my Play so far as to explain what it is I am talking about . When a minute ago I spoke of Realities , I ought to have added the adjective ...
... Reality , and one for which Reality will exact retribution - I must forestall some of the notes on my Play so far as to explain what it is I am talking about . When a minute ago I spoke of Realities , I ought to have added the adjective ...
Page xxxiv
... Reality is not merely here and now . It stretches out in space and in time . It unrolls in several dimensions ; you walk out of one part thereof into another ; you come in contact , agreeable or disagreeable , with a number of its sides ...
... Reality is not merely here and now . It stretches out in space and in time . It unrolls in several dimensions ; you walk out of one part thereof into another ; you come in contact , agreeable or disagreeable , with a number of its sides ...
Page xxxv
... reality ; sometimes , as in what is called prejudice , an element borrowed from a distant past or from an uncon- nected namesake , as when Poles or Rumanians identify the Jews who crucified our Lord with the Jews whose shops they are ...
... reality ; sometimes , as in what is called prejudice , an element borrowed from a distant past or from an uncon- nected namesake , as when Poles or Rumanians identify the Jews who crucified our Lord with the Jews whose shops they are ...
Page xxxvi
... realities , but a consequent lack of comparison , a loss of all sense of scale and proportion . Thus there has not been among either group of belligerents , with the perhaps solitary . exception of Mr. Bernard Shaw , any attempt to ...
... realities , but a consequent lack of comparison , a loss of all sense of scale and proportion . Thus there has not been among either group of belligerents , with the perhaps solitary . exception of Mr. Bernard Shaw , any attempt to ...
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