The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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... tion of interest ; their disappointment with them- selves , their surprise that they can do things that seem to them so abnormal , make them place too great an emphasis on occurrences that are more common than they suppose . Rousseau in ...
... tion of interest ; their disappointment with them- selves , their surprise that they can do things that seem to them so abnormal , make them place too great an emphasis on occurrences that are more common than they suppose . Rousseau in ...
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... tion , but they are wrong if they think it an intelligent one . xxvi In my youth , when my instinctive feeling about a book differed from that of authoritative critics I did not hesitate to conclude that I was wrong . I did not know how ...
... tion , but they are wrong if they think it an intelligent one . xxvi In my youth , when my instinctive feeling about a book differed from that of authoritative critics I did not hesitate to conclude that I was wrong . I did not know how ...
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... tion that substance thinking and substance extended are one and the same substance . But of course today it is more convenient to call it energy . Unless I mis- understand him Bertrand Russell has expressed in his modern fashion an idea ...
... tion that substance thinking and substance extended are one and the same substance . But of course today it is more convenient to call it energy . Unless I mis- understand him Bertrand Russell has expressed in his modern fashion an idea ...
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