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Humanity is like a fever patient who in paroxysms of pain keeps turning from side to side , from right to left , from left to right . ... He believed in the human heart ; he never demanded the same thing for everybody .
Humanity is like a fever patient who in paroxysms of pain keeps turning from side to side , from right to left , from left to right . ... He believed in the human heart ; he never demanded the same thing for everybody .
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Alain ' devotes by far the greater part of his writing to normal human life . In a period of our history when we need comforting , we find much that is comforting in ' Alain . ' No one knows better than he how low human nature can fall ...
Alain ' devotes by far the greater part of his writing to normal human life . In a period of our history when we need comforting , we find much that is comforting in ' Alain . ' No one knows better than he how low human nature can fall ...
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The problem of the nineteenth century was , we repeat , to create ' mas- tery of nature , ' of the production of inanimate power , of the raw materials ( so to speak ) of human emancipation ...
The problem of the nineteenth century was , we repeat , to create ' mas- tery of nature , ' of the production of inanimate power , of the raw materials ( so to speak ) of human emancipation ...
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