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... their spiritual experiences with a certain irony ; which is all to the good , for thus
they can manage and manipulate them . For my part , of the various theories of
the relations between matter and spirit that are offered by the philosophers for the
...
... their spiritual experiences with a certain irony ; which is all to the good , for thus
they can manage and manipulate them . For my part , of the various theories of
the relations between matter and spirit that are offered by the philosophers for the
...
Page 261
and spirit that are offered by the philosophers for the consideration of the plain
man that which still seems to me most satisfactory is Spinoza's conception that
substance thinking and substance extended are one and the same substance .
and spirit that are offered by the philosophers for the consideration of the plain
man that which still seems to me most satisfactory is Spinoza's conception that
substance thinking and substance extended are one and the same substance .
Page 271
... and Baal , to the Brahma of the Upanishads . That spirit , if spirit it may be
called , self - created and independent of all other existence , though all that
exists , exists in it , the sole source of life in all that lives , [ 271 ] THE SUMMING
UP.
... and Baal , to the Brahma of the Upanishads . That spirit , if spirit it may be
called , self - created and independent of all other existence , though all that
exists , exists in it , the sole source of life in all that lives , [ 271 ] THE SUMMING
UP.
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Doubleday, Doran & Company, Incorporated, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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