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Whatever is elemental in man - love , hunger , fear - has obeyed from the beginning the discipline of intelligence . We are told that to kill one's aging parents was once a demonstration of solicitude ; about the same time men hungered ...
Whatever is elemental in man - love , hunger , fear - has obeyed from the beginning the discipline of intelligence . We are told that to kill one's aging parents was once a demonstration of solicitude ; about the same time men hungered ...
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Neverthe- less , we may suspect that even at the beginning people recognized in Doctor Faustus a braver brother , a somewhat enviable reprobate who had dared to relish the good things of this life above the sad joys vaguely promised for ...
Neverthe- less , we may suspect that even at the beginning people recognized in Doctor Faustus a braver brother , a somewhat enviable reprobate who had dared to relish the good things of this life above the sad joys vaguely promised for ...
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This salvation does not hang on any im- provement in Faust's character - he was sinful to the end , and had been God's unwitting servant from the very beginning - nor does it lie in any revolution in his fortunes , as if in heaven he ...
This salvation does not hang on any im- provement in Faust's character - he was sinful to the end , and had been God's unwitting servant from the very beginning - nor does it lie in any revolution in his fortunes , as if in heaven he ...
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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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