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Page 56
... ourselves to be suffi- ciently humble and worshipful , He may " save " us to a more agreeable hereafter - though why He should have chosen to invent such irritable and even ridiculous creatures as ourselves or the several chemical and ...
... ourselves to be suffi- ciently humble and worshipful , He may " save " us to a more agreeable hereafter - though why He should have chosen to invent such irritable and even ridiculous creatures as ourselves or the several chemical and ...
Page 94
... ourselves to punishment . This is the contrary of morality , for we make ourselves subject to an alien despotism in order to gain something by it . Com- mands such as this are remnants from times when people be- lieved in war gods ...
... ourselves to punishment . This is the contrary of morality , for we make ourselves subject to an alien despotism in order to gain something by it . Com- mands such as this are remnants from times when people be- lieved in war gods ...
Page 168
... ourselves in the attempt to choose ; and , in spite of colossal effort and colossal possessions , we find life profoundly unsatisfying . The fact is that the average man of to - day - who has cut himself off from the past , due to a ...
... ourselves in the attempt to choose ; and , in spite of colossal effort and colossal possessions , we find life profoundly unsatisfying . The fact is that the average man of to - day - who has cut himself off from the past , due to a ...
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