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I felt that I had got all that I was capable of getting out of the world in which I had been moving ; my success as a playwright and the luxurious existence it had brought me ; the social round , the grand dinners at the houses of the ...
I felt that I had got all that I was capable of getting out of the world in which I had been moving ; my success as a playwright and the luxurious existence it had brought me ; the social round , the grand dinners at the houses of the ...
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Arguments have been adduced to prove the existence of God , and I will ask the reader to have patience with me while I briefly consider them . One of them assumes that man has an idea of a perfect being ; and since perfection includes ...
Arguments have been adduced to prove the existence of God , and I will ask the reader to have patience with me while I briefly consider them . One of them assumes that man has an idea of a perfect being ; and since perfection includes ...
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It appears , then , that none of the argu- ments for the existence of God is valid . But of course you do not disprove his existence because you can- not prove it . Awe remains , man's sense of [ 269 ] THE SUMMING UP.
It appears , then , that none of the argu- ments for the existence of God is valid . But of course you do not disprove his existence because you can- not prove it . Awe remains , man's sense of [ 269 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | W. Heinemann, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0434456101, 9780434456109 |
| Length | 317 pages |
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