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The next turn in Faust's fortunes actually finds him a trader , a states- man , an empire builder ; and if such a rolling stone could gather any moss , we should expect to see here , if anywhere , the fruits of that " aesthetic ...
The next turn in Faust's fortunes actually finds him a trader , a states- man , an empire builder ; and if such a rolling stone could gather any moss , we should expect to see here , if anywhere , the fruits of that " aesthetic ...
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Magic , the exercise of an unteachable will , is still Faust's instrument . Mephistopheles , by various arts of illusion , secures the triumph of the emperor in a desperate war which he is carrying on against a justifiable insurrection ...
Magic , the exercise of an unteachable will , is still Faust's instrument . Mephistopheles , by various arts of illusion , secures the triumph of the emperor in a desperate war which he is carrying on against a justifiable insurrection ...
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The checkered and willful life of Faust is not righteous in any of its parts ; yet righteousness is imputed to it as a whole ; divine love accepts it as sufficient ; speculative reason declares that to be the best possible life which ...
The checkered and willful life of Faust is not righteous in any of its parts ; yet righteousness is imputed to it as a whole ; divine love accepts it as sufficient ; speculative reason declares that to be the best possible life which ...
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 644 pages |
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