Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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... respect to condition and character . We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom , power and grace which we feel to be proper to man , proper to us . So all that is said of the wise man by stoic or oriental or mod- ern ...
... respect to condition and character . We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom , power and grace which we feel to be proper to man , proper to us . So all that is said of the wise man by stoic or oriental or mod- ern ...
Page 51
... respect for his being . Especially he hates what he has , if he see that it is accidental , -came to him by inheritance , or gift , or crime ; then he feels that it is not having ; it does not belong to him , has no root in him , and ...
... respect for his being . Especially he hates what he has , if he see that it is accidental , -came to him by inheritance , or gift , or crime ; then he feels that it is not having ; it does not belong to him , has no root in him , and ...
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... respect men as it respects itself . In strict science , all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness . Shall we fear to cool our love by facing the fact , by mining for the metaphysical foundation of this Elysian ...
... respect men as it respects itself . In strict science , all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness . Shall we fear to cool our love by facing the fact , by mining for the metaphysical foundation of this Elysian ...
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