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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I seemed inevitably drawn to the conception of a creator , and what could create this vast , this stupendous universe but a being all - powerful ? But the evil of the world then forces on us the conclusion that this being cannot be all ...
I seemed inevitably drawn to the conception of a creator , and what could create this vast , this stupendous universe but a being all - powerful ? But the evil of the world then forces on us the conclusion that this being cannot be all ...
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I had an overwhelming sense of the power and import of the universe , and an intimate , a shattering sense of communion with it . I could almost bring myself to say that I felt the presence of God . It is doubtless a common enough ...
I had an overwhelming sense of the power and import of the universe , and an intimate , a shattering sense of communion with it . I could almost bring myself to say that I felt the presence of God . It is doubtless a common enough ...
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It may be that this planet alone can support life , or it may be that in other parts of the universe other planets have had the possibility of forming a suitable environment to that substance from which , we suppose , along the vast ...
It may be that this planet alone can support life , or it may be that in other parts of the universe other planets have had the possibility of forming a suitable environment to that substance from which , we suppose , along the vast ...
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| Title | The Summing Up Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Arno Press, 1977 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 18 May 2018 |
| ISBN | 0405078307, 9780405078309 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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