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Impossible. These creatures that I see here and now have little capacity for
imagining, let alone sensing, any such entirely different state, assuming such a
one to exist. Their reactions relate to what they see, hear, feel, taste, and smell
here ...
Impossible. These creatures that I see here and now have little capacity for
imagining, let alone sensing, any such entirely different state, assuming such a
one to exist. Their reactions relate to what they see, hear, feel, taste, and smell
here ...
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The temples, towers, prayers, and the profound stupidity that accompanies it I
And not only that, but the fear and awe which throughout the ages have induced
billions of creatures, compounded of these same universal atoms about which we
...
The temples, towers, prayers, and the profound stupidity that accompanies it I
And not only that, but the fear and awe which throughout the ages have induced
billions of creatures, compounded of these same universal atoms about which we
...
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In all other creatures some sort of stable equilibrium or harmony is established,
automatically and unchangeably, but the power of choice which in him has been
so often and so highly lauded is in reality only the sign of an unstable equilibrium
...
In all other creatures some sort of stable equilibrium or harmony is established,
automatically and unchangeably, but the power of choice which in him has been
so often and so highly lauded is in reality only the sign of an unstable equilibrium
...
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