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He can be perfectly sincere in his creative emotion and yet there is someone else within him who is capable of cocking a snook at ... like the gods , to create human beings prevents him from achieving perfect truth in their creation .
He can be perfectly sincere in his creative emotion and yet there is someone else within him who is capable of cocking a snook at ... like the gods , to create human beings prevents him from achieving perfect truth in their creation .
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One of them assumes that man has an idea of a perfect being ; and since perfection includes existence a perfect being must exist . Another maintains that every event has a cause and since ...
One of them assumes that man has an idea of a perfect being ; and since perfection includes existence a perfect being must exist . Another maintains that every event has a cause and since ...
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... in which the earth produces her plenty without excessive labour , where the pleasures and pains of the individual are those incidental to the human race , it has seemed to me that there the perfect life was perfectly realized .
... in which the earth produces her plenty without excessive labour , where the pleasures and pains of the individual are those incidental to the human race , it has seemed to me that there the perfect life was perfectly realized .
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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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