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Page xxxiv
... truth ; and that gives them but the greater hold on our credulity . Even as there is mostly some starting point in real visual phenomena for whatever is called an optical illusion , so also in the delusions of passion there xxxiv SATAN ...
... truth ; and that gives them but the greater hold on our credulity . Even as there is mostly some starting point in real visual phenomena for whatever is called an optical illusion , so also in the delusions of passion there xxxiv SATAN ...
Page xlix
... truths which I imagine myself to have set forth in the present volume . 66 What I do hope ( it may well be without sufficient warrant ) is that some of these notions are the needful complementaries and correctives of what has gone ...
... truths which I imagine myself to have set forth in the present volume . 66 What I do hope ( it may well be without sufficient warrant ) is that some of these notions are the needful complementaries and correctives of what has gone ...
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... truth acceptable by standing it on its head ; for instance , put what people call Hell below , when it is so visibly above , the Earth's surface ; time it after death , when it is obviously present during life . But mis- representations ...
... truth acceptable by standing it on its head ; for instance , put what people call Hell below , when it is so visibly above , the Earth's surface ; time it after death , when it is obviously present during life . But mis- representations ...
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... truth , and still less certain whether the truth will be welcome . SATAN ( contemptuously ) . God neither planted nor forbade PROLOGUE 15.
... truth , and still less certain whether the truth will be welcome . SATAN ( contemptuously ) . God neither planted nor forbade PROLOGUE 15.
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... truth and goodness , shall foam out only lies and boasts and insults . And the heart shall go out no longer to other hearts , but only melt in self - pity and blaze in vin- dictiveness . And none of you , O Nations , shall know your ...
... truth and goodness , shall foam out only lies and boasts and insults . And the heart shall go out no longer to other hearts , but only melt in self - pity and blaze in vin- dictiveness . And none of you , O Nations , shall know your ...
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