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Page xxxiii
... implacably accurate accounts by double entry. It will be objected that Principles
, Ideals, Causes, Beliefs, Feelings, Passions and Ways of Seeing, are themselves
realities, indeed among the most potent realities, as this war has surely shown.
... implacably accurate accounts by double entry. It will be objected that Principles
, Ideals, Causes, Beliefs, Feelings, Passions and Ways of Seeing, are themselves
realities, indeed among the most potent realities, as this war has surely shown.
Page xxxiv
Such is confessedly the case with the delusions arising from the passions
themselves due to conflict between private individuals; how much more when the
delusions are the averaged, standardized, the unanimous ones born of the
passionate ...
Such is confessedly the case with the delusions arising from the passions
themselves due to conflict between private individuals; how much more when the
delusions are the averaged, standardized, the unanimous ones born of the
passionate ...
Page xxxvii
In such manner do war-efforts and war-passions make us see only one side of
realities, and see that in wrong proportions and erroneous connexions: the
proportions which things bear to our feelings not to one another; the connexions
with ...
In such manner do war-efforts and war-passions make us see only one side of
realities, and see that in wrong proportions and erroneous connexions: the
proportions which things bear to our feelings not to one another; the connexions
with ...
Page xxxviii
... are but a minute portion, the most unstable and dependent portion of this
universal and ceaseless change and interchange, in which we have our being.
And our existence, let alone the satisfaction of those very needs and passions
which ...
... are but a minute portion, the most unstable and dependent portion of this
universal and ceaseless change and interchange, in which we have our being.
And our existence, let alone the satisfaction of those very needs and passions
which ...
Page xlii
... not his last, Dance of Death with the stealthy assistance of his irresponsible
bravoes Delusion and Confusion, no less than with the visible and audible co-
operation of the loftiest and the vilest of our Passions, all playing away, cheek by
jowl, ...
... not his last, Dance of Death with the stealthy assistance of his irresponsible
bravoes Delusion and Confusion, no less than with the visible and audible co-
operation of the loftiest and the vilest of our Passions, all playing away, cheek by
jowl, ...
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| Title | Satan, the Waster: A Philosophic War Trilogy with Notes & Introduction |
| Author | Vernon Lee |
| Translated by | Vernon Lee |
| Publisher | John Lane, 1920 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 11 Dec 2007 |
| Length | 298 pages |
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