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Page 145
This parable cuts through the political into the natural and even the metaphysical world , and gives a sombre answer to the question , ' Whither ? ' But ' Alain ' does not mean it as a solution to our riddles , only as a picture of what ...
This parable cuts through the political into the natural and even the metaphysical world , and gives a sombre answer to the question , ' Whither ? ' But ' Alain ' does not mean it as a solution to our riddles , only as a picture of what ...
Page 363
His genius , which is merely the release of an élan vital , ar- rays itself against nature , to which he wants to bring a personal order . This presumptuousness makes him noble and too often leads him to struggle for ambitious aims ...
His genius , which is merely the release of an élan vital , ar- rays itself against nature , to which he wants to bring a personal order . This presumptuousness makes him noble and too often leads him to struggle for ambitious aims ...
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It gave man the mastery of nature and attempted to make him the master of himself , that is of society . Its ' culture heroes ' were Darwin and Karl Marx , but as science is less individual and more collective in its achievements than ...
It gave man the mastery of nature and attempted to make him the master of himself , that is of society . Its ' culture heroes ' were Darwin and Karl Marx , but as science is less individual and more collective in its achievements than ...
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