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Page 51
... present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now . But common sense avails me little . I do not find the present unsatisfactory ; I merely take it for granted . It is interwoven in the pattern and what interests me is what ...
... present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now . But common sense avails me little . I do not find the present unsatisfactory ; I merely take it for granted . It is interwoven in the pattern and what interests me is what ...
Page 73
... present , I answered with- out hesitation Herbert Spencer's First Principles . I read it with complacency . But I was impatient of Spencer's maudlin belief in progress : the world I knew was going from bad to worse and I was as pleased ...
... present , I answered with- out hesitation Herbert Spencer's First Principles . I read it with complacency . But I was impatient of Spencer's maudlin belief in progress : the world I knew was going from bad to worse and I was as pleased ...
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... present ; pain and disease , the death of those we love , poverty , crime , sin , frustrated hope : the list is interminable . What explanations have the philoso- phers to offer ? Some say that evil is logically neces- sary so that we ...
... present ; pain and disease , the death of those we love , poverty , crime , sin , frustrated hope : the list is interminable . What explanations have the philoso- phers to offer ? Some say that evil is logically neces- sary so that we ...
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