A Study for the Times: An Inquiry Into Thought and MoticesG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1920 - Всего страниц: 324 |
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... least in great part , is a dream . We live in a real world , but we do not truly apprehend it . Our thought is full of fantastic miscon- ceptions and our conduct is based mainly not upon what is but upon what seems . It is the purpose ...
... least in great part , is a dream . We live in a real world , but we do not truly apprehend it . Our thought is full of fantastic miscon- ceptions and our conduct is based mainly not upon what is but upon what seems . It is the purpose ...
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... least the fermentation of ideas , resulting from the widening of educational op- portunity , the vast increase of wealth , in which almost all have some share , the greater diffusion of political power , and the far - advanced ...
... least the fermentation of ideas , resulting from the widening of educational op- portunity , the vast increase of wealth , in which almost all have some share , the greater diffusion of political power , and the far - advanced ...
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... least partially explain that the knowledge of the average man , though extended , is superficial or a mere sham , and that his theories and beliefs , having no root in painstaking ob- servation and judicious reflection , quickly wither ...
... least partially explain that the knowledge of the average man , though extended , is superficial or a mere sham , and that his theories and beliefs , having no root in painstaking ob- servation and judicious reflection , quickly wither ...
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... least subconsciously aware that it has only unsubstantial fact and confused reasoning for a basis . With typical instability , he quickly tires of an idea and , always seeking something new , is prepared to accept without much ...
... least subconsciously aware that it has only unsubstantial fact and confused reasoning for a basis . With typical instability , he quickly tires of an idea and , always seeking something new , is prepared to accept without much ...
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... least as good as those of anyone else and quite trust- worthy . In the earlier time , the teachers - the authorities and sole originators of ideas - were few , and relatively few therefore were the errors and delusions . Now , in any ...
... least as good as those of anyone else and quite trust- worthy . In the earlier time , the teachers - the authorities and sole originators of ideas - were few , and relatively few therefore were the errors and delusions . Now , in any ...
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Стр. 138 - It is that our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
Стр. 130 - THERE was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
Стр. 219 - Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'da blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality : All is but toys : renown, and grace, is dead ; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
Стр. 158 - it will be questioned ; ' when the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire, somewhat like a guinea ? ' Oh ! no, no ! I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host, crying : ' Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty ! ' I question not my corporeal eye, any more than I would question a window concerning a sight.
Стр. 88 - I cannot tell : this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights.
Стр. 130 - Affection that will not be gainsay'd, the sense of what is real, the thought if after all it should prove unreal, The doubts of day-time and the doubts of night-time, the curious whether and how, Whether that which appears so is so, or is it all flashes and specks ? Men and women crowding fast in the streets, if they are not flashes and specks what are they?
Стр. 70 - ... to it ; his own witnesses are applauded and encouraged ; the statements which seem to throw discredit on them are controverted ; the contradictions into which they fall are explained away ; a clear and connected abstract of their evidence is given. Everything that is offered on the other...
Стр. 293 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Стр. 17 - Wise men have said are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior (And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself...
Стр. 224 - First, as in their own defence, as being exposed to scorn ; but in process of time, by a general habit. Also it stirreth in them industry, and especially of this kind, to watch and observe the weakness of others, that they may have somewhat to repay.