Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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... fact a fact . Babylon and Troy and Tyre and even early Rome are passing already into fiction . The garden of Eden , the Sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have ...
... fact a fact . Babylon and Troy and Tyre and even early Rome are passing already into fiction . The garden of Eden , the Sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have ...
Page 41
... fact the world hates , that the soul becomes ; for , that forever degrades the past ; turns riches to poverty ; all reputation to a shame ; confounds the saint with the rogue ; shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside . Why then do we prate ...
... fact the world hates , that the soul becomes ; for , that forever degrades the past ; turns riches to poverty ; all reputation to a shame ; confounds the saint with the rogue ; shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside . Why then do we prate ...
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... facts . The law dissolves the fact and holds it fluid . Our culture is the predominance of an idea which draws after it all this train of cities and institutions . Let us rise into another idea : they will disappear . The Greek ...
... facts . The law dissolves the fact and holds it fluid . Our culture is the predominance of an idea which draws after it all this train of cities and institutions . Let us rise into another idea : they will disappear . The Greek ...
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