The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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Page 67
... human nature ; it leads you to mistrust great professions and look for the unworthy motive that they conceal ; the dis- parity between appearance and reality diverts you and you are apt when you cannot find it to create it . You tend to ...
... human nature ; it leads you to mistrust great professions and look for the unworthy motive that they conceal ; the dis- parity between appearance and reality diverts you and you are apt when you cannot find it to create it . You tend to ...
Page 77
... human nature is such that it falters sometimes when it is bidden to take the broadest of all surveys of human nature . It will shrink from the splendour of Tolstoi's War and Peace to turn with complacency to Vol- taire's Candide . It ...
... human nature is such that it falters sometimes when it is bidden to take the broadest of all surveys of human nature . It will shrink from the splendour of Tolstoi's War and Peace to turn with complacency to Vol- taire's Candide . It ...
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... natural and these inevitably are very simple and obvious . It has restricted his themes since it is hard to deal with the fundamental issues of human life , it is impossible to analyze the complexities of human nature [ 157 ] THE SUMMING ...
... natural and these inevitably are very simple and obvious . It has restricted his themes since it is hard to deal with the fundamental issues of human life , it is impossible to analyze the complexities of human nature [ 157 ] THE SUMMING ...
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