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Page 17
... soul quickened within body , I saw to clogging it by body's clinging habits , and , in return , unsettled secure instincts with half - fledged reason . Man was not yet ; hence neither good nor evil . But in the lowest brutes already ...
... soul quickened within body , I saw to clogging it by body's clinging habits , and , in return , unsettled secure instincts with half - fledged reason . Man was not yet ; hence neither good nor evil . But in the lowest brutes already ...
Page 22
... souls , carved by Ionian masons on the great pillar of Ephesus : naked and winged and lovely , marshalling Life's slow triumph . For he it is who makes room for new - comers in just turn , securing the world for Youth and Betterment ...
... souls , carved by Ionian masons on the great pillar of Ephesus : naked and winged and lovely , marshalling Life's slow triumph . For he it is who makes room for new - comers in just turn , securing the world for Youth and Betterment ...
Page 45
... soul . Ye are going forth , O Nations , to join Death's Dance even as candid high - hearted virgins who have been decoyed by fair show into the house of prostitution , where sins they never dreamed of become their daily trade , and ...
... soul . Ye are going forth , O Nations , to join Death's Dance even as candid high - hearted virgins who have been decoyed by fair show into the house of prostitution , where sins they never dreamed of become their daily trade , and ...
Page 56
... soul in tender madness . But Indignation hissed and roared like a burning granary when the sparks crackle as they fly into the ripe , standing harvest , and the flames wave scores of feet high in the blast of their own making . SATAN ...
... soul in tender madness . But Indignation hissed and roared like a burning granary when the sparks crackle as they fly into the ripe , standing harvest , and the flames wave scores of feet high in the blast of their own making . SATAN ...
Page 80
... souls to Christ . IST MANUFACTURER . It is the only way to save the beet- root - sugar industry . 2ND MANUFACTURER . And the iron and steel industry . 3RD MANUFACTURER . And the cotton industry . THE MINISTER . Not so fast ! It isn't my ...
... souls to Christ . IST MANUFACTURER . It is the only way to save the beet- root - sugar industry . 2ND MANUFACTURER . And the iron and steel industry . 3RD MANUFACTURER . And the cotton industry . THE MINISTER . Not so fast ! It isn't my ...
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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