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Page 134
... reason why they should be less interesting ; and if by the time the play has run its course they are out of date , what of it ? The play is dead anyway . Now to this question the an- swer is that there is no reason at all , if he can ...
... reason why they should be less interesting ; and if by the time the play has run its course they are out of date , what of it ? The play is dead anyway . Now to this question the an- swer is that there is no reason at all , if he can ...
Page 243
... reasons in the struggle for existence , the sum total of it , something that is essen- tial to the well - being of ... reason- able theories about the universe and man's place in it , the mystery of evil and the meaning of reality ...
... reasons in the struggle for existence , the sum total of it , something that is essen- tial to the well - being of ... reason- able theories about the universe and man's place in it , the mystery of evil and the meaning of reality ...
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... reason would have no truck with . In de- fault of anything better it has seemed to me some- times that I might pretend to myself that the good- ness I have not so seldom after all come across in many of those I have encountered on my ...
... reason would have no truck with . In de- fault of anything better it has seemed to me some- times that I might pretend to myself that the good- ness I have not so seldom after all come across in many of those I have encountered on my ...
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