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... death . He was a clergyman and she asked him to be godfather to one of her sons . She expressed , very simply and piously , the hope that by reason of his holy calling the relationship into which she invited him to enter would have such ...
... death . He was a clergyman and she asked him to be godfather to one of her sons . She expressed , very simply and piously , the hope that by reason of his holy calling the relationship into which she invited him to enter would have such ...
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... death of those we love , poverty , crime , sin , frustrated hope : the list is interminable . What explanations have the philosophers to offer ? Some say that evil is logically neces- sary so that we may know good ; some say that by the ...
... death of those we love , poverty , crime , sin , frustrated hope : the list is interminable . What explanations have the philosophers to offer ? Some say that evil is logically neces- sary so that we may know good ; some say that by the ...
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... death . He might with advantage have read what Epicurus wrote to a correspondent : ' Become accustomed to the belief that death is nothing to us . For all good and evil consists in sensation , but death is deprivation of sensation . And ...
... death . He might with advantage have read what Epicurus wrote to a correspondent : ' Become accustomed to the belief that death is nothing to us . For all good and evil consists in sensation , but death is deprivation of sensation . And ...
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