What is Man? and Other EssaysHarper & brother, 1917 - 375 páginas The Old Man had asserted that the human being is merely a machine and nothing more. |
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... tion Warriors Zoroastrians , and the Zoroastrians Christian Scientists , and the Christian Scientists Mormons and so on ? Y. M. You may answer your question yourself . O. M. That list of sects is not a record of studies , searchings ...
... tion Warriors Zoroastrians , and the Zoroastrians Christian Scientists , and the Christian Scientists Mormons and so on ? Y. M. You may answer your question yourself . O. M. That list of sects is not a record of studies , searchings ...
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... to put under control , came the hot rebuke , " You've forgotten them again ! " You say a man always does the thing which will best please his Interior Master . Whence came the impulse to make careful prepara- tion to 49 WHAT IS MAN ?
... to put under control , came the hot rebuke , " You've forgotten them again ! " You say a man always does the thing which will best please his Interior Master . Whence came the impulse to make careful prepara- tion to 49 WHAT IS MAN ?
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... tion to save the girl , but primarily its object was to save yourself , by contenting the Master . Y. M. How do you mean ? O. M. Has any member of the family ever im- plored you to watch your temper and not fly out at the girl ? Y. M. ...
... tion to save the girl , but primarily its object was to save yourself , by contenting the Master . Y. M. How do you mean ? O. M. Has any member of the family ever im- plored you to watch your temper and not fly out at the girl ? Y. M. ...
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... tion , and you call it all instinct ! Y. M. Perhaps I lacked the reasoning faculty myself . O. M. Well , don't tell anybody , and don't do it again . Y. M. We have come a good way . As a result- as I understand it - I am required to ...
... tion , and you call it all instinct ! Y. M. Perhaps I lacked the reasoning faculty myself . O. M. Well , don't tell anybody , and don't do it again . Y. M. We have come a good way . As a result- as I understand it - I am required to ...
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... tion , and you call it all instinct ! Y. M. Perhaps I lacked the reasoning faculty myself . O. M. Well , don't tell anybody , and don't do it again . Y. M. We have come a good way . As a result— as I understand it - I am required to ...
... tion , and you call it all instinct ! Y. M. Perhaps I lacked the reasoning faculty myself . O. M. Well , don't tell anybody , and don't do it again . Y. M. We have come a good way . As a result— as I understand it - I am required to ...
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Página 190 - For forty years his English has been to me a continual delight and astonishment. In the sustained exhibition of certain great qualities— clearness, compression, verbal exactness, and unforced and seemingly unconscious felicity of phrasing— he is, in my belief, without his peer in the English-writing world. Sustained. I intrench myself behind that protecting word.
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Página 194 - Macaulay, that Machiavelli was in earnest, but must not be judged as a political moralist of our time and race would be judged. He thinks that Machiavelli was in earnest, as none but an idealist can be, and he is the first to imagine him an idealist immersed in realities, who involuntarily transmutes the events under his eye into something like the visionary issues of reverie.