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Page xxxii
... individual attempt to examine , to analyse , to appraise it for good and evil , becomes a sacrilegious outrage from which we shrink with the taboo - horror inherited from our own infancy and from that of our race . What self - respect ...
... individual attempt to examine , to analyse , to appraise it for good and evil , becomes a sacrilegious outrage from which we shrink with the taboo - horror inherited from our own infancy and from that of our race . What self - respect ...
Page xxxiv
... individuals ; how much more when the delusions are the averaged , standardized , the unanimous ones born of the passionate conflict of whole nations ! Neither need they be , nor are they , delusions all through ; they may contain a ...
... individuals ; how much more when the delusions are the averaged , standardized , the unanimous ones born of the passionate conflict of whole nations ! Neither need they be , nor are they , delusions all through ; they may contain a ...
Page xxxv
... individuals , nations have many sides , too many for us to see , especially to feel ( for they affect our feelings differently ) , at the same moment ; too many sides for us to check off against one another , so much to the debit side ...
... individuals , nations have many sides , too many for us to see , especially to feel ( for they affect our feelings differently ) , at the same moment ; too many sides for us to check off against one another , so much to the debit side ...
Page xl
... individual men , are brought to the highest point by that national unanimity which we have seen to be one of war's most inevitable results and most indispensable instruments . In the case of present war this inherent inadequacy to ...
... individual men , are brought to the highest point by that national unanimity which we have seen to be one of war's most inevitable results and most indispensable instruments . In the case of present war this inherent inadequacy to ...
Page xlvi
... individuals , so small , so ephemeral , so utterly dependent and inter - dependent a portion . To seek out the ... individual man or woman , however wonderful , cannot produce enough for its own sustenance and growth , for xlvi ...
... individuals , so small , so ephemeral , so utterly dependent and inter - dependent a portion . To seek out the ... individual man or woman , however wonderful , cannot produce enough for its own sustenance and growth , for xlvi ...
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