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Page 132
... emotional values , such turning a statement into a pattern , into a piece of music , each with its emotional coercion , with its imperative appeal to preference and aversion . How could it be otherwise ? Has not literature , poetry ...
... emotional values , such turning a statement into a pattern , into a piece of music , each with its emotional coercion , with its imperative appeal to preference and aversion . How could it be otherwise ? Has not literature , poetry ...
Page 134
... emotional and imaginative values , it is a trade which can be decently plied only by people fully aware of these ... emotions , will merely let loose the deceiving demons who hide in our own soul and in that of all other men and women ...
... emotional and imaginative values , it is a trade which can be decently plied only by people fully aware of these ... emotions , will merely let loose the deceiving demons who hide in our own soul and in that of all other men and women ...
Page 137
... emotions . So the two latter , and everything of that kind , becomes , willy - nilly , the writers ' habitual material . That is one reason , among others , why writers are so often prophets and moralists . • VI There is , of course ...
... emotions . So the two latter , and everything of that kind , becomes , willy - nilly , the writers ' habitual material . That is one reason , among others , why writers are so often prophets and moralists . • VI There is , of course ...
Page 138
... emotion which all rational and sensitive minds share and increase . The writer is surely not much more than the particular leaven which is to make thought ferment and rise ; rise , moreover , to neutralize much of his own , in the mind ...
... emotion which all rational and sensitive minds share and increase . The writer is surely not much more than the particular leaven which is to make thought ferment and rise ; rise , moreover , to neutralize much of his own , in the mind ...
Page 141
... emotions , preferences , and aversions which , at least in civilized mankind , affect the outer world only indirectly through beliefs and opinions . Their glance is turned inwards ; and they deal with the contents of our inner world ...
... emotions , preferences , and aversions which , at least in civilized mankind , affect the outer world only indirectly through beliefs and opinions . Their glance is turned inwards ; and they deal with the contents of our inner world ...
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