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Page xxi
Vernon Lee. spiritual mechanism of errors and myths which the vastness , the identity , of this war's dangers and sacrifices automatically set up in the minds of all the warring peoples , interposing the same veil of passionate or ...
Vernon Lee. spiritual mechanism of errors and myths which the vastness , the identity , of this war's dangers and sacrifices automatically set up in the minds of all the warring peoples , interposing the same veil of passionate or ...
Page xli
... spiritual habits is so much the dominant characteristic of our civilization and of ourselves , that we rarely suspect its very existence . Whatever has survived from hundreds , perhaps thousands , of years ago , seems as natural , and a ...
... spiritual habits is so much the dominant characteristic of our civilization and of ourselves , that we rarely suspect its very existence . Whatever has survived from hundreds , perhaps thousands , of years ago , seems as natural , and a ...
Page xlii
... spiritual aspects of the war , such as could not be perceived by those , whether friends or foes , whose heart has been in it . I have symbolized them in my play : Satan , who defines himself as the Waster of Human Virtue , stages his ...
... spiritual aspects of the war , such as could not be perceived by those , whether friends or foes , whose heart has been in it . I have symbolized them in my play : Satan , who defines himself as the Waster of Human Virtue , stages his ...
Page xlv
... spiritual inertia or by the need for self - respect which makes us often more loyal to our mistakes than to our standards and ideals . They are war's unrecognized offspring , begotten on the most real part of human nature : that real ...
... spiritual inertia or by the need for self - respect which makes us often more loyal to our mistakes than to our standards and ideals . They are war's unrecognized offspring , begotten on the most real part of human nature : that real ...
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... spiritual dervishes and flagellants employ in order to restore the zest of life . Forgive my coarseness , dear Muse of History ! It is no longer every day I can converse with refined intellec- tuals like you . Philosophers and Poets do ...
... spiritual dervishes and flagellants employ in order to restore the zest of life . Forgive my coarseness , dear Muse of History ! It is no longer every day I can converse with refined intellec- tuals like you . Philosophers and Poets do ...
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