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Page 231
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 .
Page 259
It is a perfect theory ; it has but one defect ; it is unbelievable . When I cherished the ambition of writing a book on these matters , thinking I must start at the begin- ning , I studied epistemology . I found none of the theories ...
It is a perfect theory ; it has but one defect ; it is unbelievable . When I cherished the ambition of writing a book on these matters , thinking I must start at the begin- ning , I studied epistemology . I found none of the theories ...
Page 294
... 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 | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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