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Page 21
... claim from the reader an effort to understand their mean- ing . You have only to go to the great philosophers to see that it is possible to express with lucidity the most subtle . reflections . You may find it difficult to understand ...
... claim from the reader an effort to understand their mean- ing . You have only to go to the great philosophers to see that it is possible to express with lucidity the most subtle . reflections . You may find it difficult to understand ...
Page 161
... CLAIM that the author has always made and to this he has added another claim : he has asserted that he was not as other men and in consequence not ame- nable to their rules . Other men have received it with obloquy , derision and ...
... CLAIM that the author has always made and to this he has added another claim : he has asserted that he was not as other men and in consequence not ame- nable to their rules . Other men have received it with obloquy , derision and ...
Page 218
... claim to be an end in itself . Virtue is its own reward . I am ashamed to have reached so common- place a conclusion . With my instinct for effect I should have liked to end my book with some startling and para- doxical announcement or ...
... claim to be an end in itself . Virtue is its own reward . I am ashamed to have reached so common- place a conclusion . With my instinct for effect I should have liked to end my book with some startling and para- doxical announcement or ...
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