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To many people it may seem even harder to give up the idea of a purpose of
existence and a wise scheme of things, than to have to accept the doctrine of
determinism and to abandon the idea of a free will, though the one is an
inevitable ...
To many people it may seem even harder to give up the idea of a purpose of
existence and a wise scheme of things, than to have to accept the doctrine of
determinism and to abandon the idea of a free will, though the one is an
inevitable ...
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The natural span of man's existence contains enough to make this life a prize
worth living. I have within me — as have all living beings — a greed of life, an
urgent craving for immortality. That longing, which lies at the very root of the
Christian ...
The natural span of man's existence contains enough to make this life a prize
worth living. I have within me — as have all living beings — a greed of life, an
urgent craving for immortality. That longing, which lies at the very root of the
Christian ...
Page 248
Numerous persons adopted them in naming themselves and their children,
thereby reminding themselves of the perils of elimination in the struggle for
existence, national as well as individual. The once famous General Chen Chiung
-ming ...
Numerous persons adopted them in naming themselves and their children,
thereby reminding themselves of the perils of elimination in the struggle for
existence, national as well as individual. The once famous General Chen Chiung
-ming ...
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