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Page 51
... present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now . But common sense avails me little . I do not find the present unsatisfactory ; I merely take it for granted . It is interwoven in the pattern and what interests me is what ...
... present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now . But common sense avails me little . I do not find the present unsatisfactory ; I merely take it for granted . It is interwoven in the pattern and what interests me is what ...
Page 73
... present , I answered with- out hesitation Herbert Spencer's First Principles . I read it with complacency . But I was impatient of Spencer's maudlin belief in progress : the world I knew was going from bad to worse and I was as pleased ...
... present , I answered with- out hesitation Herbert Spencer's First Principles . I read it with complacency . But I was impatient of Spencer's maudlin belief in progress : the world I knew was going from bad to worse and I was as pleased ...
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... present it with the completeness that is fitting to it . But I am not impatient with the young when , only at their request , I insist , I advise them to read Shake- speare and Swift , and they tell me that they read Gulliver's Travels ...
... present it with the completeness that is fitting to it . But I am not impatient with the young when , only at their request , I insist , I advise them to read Shake- speare and Swift , and they tell me that they read Gulliver's Travels ...
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