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Page 131
... influence their choice and behaviour , is a tampering , not so much with souls , though that is part of our endeavour , but a tampering with truth . III THE ART OF PERSUASION I shall often return to my belief that one of the uses of Art ...
... influence their choice and behaviour , is a tampering , not so much with souls , though that is part of our endeavour , but a tampering with truth . III THE ART OF PERSUASION I shall often return to my belief that one of the uses of Art ...
Page 134
... influences and evil powers , whereof words and shapes and images are the medium ; so that , unless he whose special voca- tion it is to deal with these dangerous things learns to approach his work in a humble spirit and with a heart ...
... influences and evil powers , whereof words and shapes and images are the medium ; so that , unless he whose special voca- tion it is to deal with these dangerous things learns to approach his work in a humble spirit and with a heart ...
Page 161
... influence our views for the sake of self - consistence , self - respect , and , more precious still , devotion to whatever we love best . There are more obvious and grosser cases where feeling prompts action and where that action itself ...
... influence our views for the sake of self - consistence , self - respect , and , more precious still , devotion to whatever we love best . There are more obvious and grosser cases where feeling prompts action and where that action itself ...
Page 189
... influence in the proceedings of their adversaries , people do not like admitting that Satan can have a hand in their own ; indeed that is the main reason of the unpopularity of my Ballet . Now Satan has contrived once more ( as Milton ...
... influence in the proceedings of their adversaries , people do not like admitting that Satan can have a hand in their own ; indeed that is the main reason of the unpopularity of my Ballet . Now Satan has contrived once more ( as Milton ...
Page 212
... influence " of our own passion- ate and imaginative exploitation ; instead of regarding it as the open and unknown country where we and our fussy vicarious egotism can , thank the Lord , be escaped from ! II The friend who complained ...
... influence " of our own passion- ate and imaginative exploitation ; instead of regarding it as the open and unknown country where we and our fussy vicarious egotism can , thank the Lord , be escaped from ! II The friend who complained ...
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2ND VOICE Adventure Adversary æsthetic AGES-TO-COME altruism Ballet Master Death become belief belligerent Bertrand Russell Brachycephalous Brobdingnag Cæsarea called cinema shows creatures dance dangerous dear Clio decent Delusion and Confusion desire emotional enemy evil existence eyes fact feeling friends future German Gog and Magog gramophone wheezes habits hand happens harmonium Hatred hence Heroism honour horror human Idealism implies Indignation individual IST VOICE Justice kind larning less look Lord Satan man's mankind means merely mind moral moralists moreover Muse of History Nations nature neighbours never once one's Orchestra ourselves passions Patriotism peace perhaps persons play poor preference present qualities Reality reason recognize religion require result Romain Rolland sacrifice self-sacrifice sense side soul spiritual suffering sure Themistocles things thought tion truth turn war's Waste Waster Widow Fear words writing