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Erskine regrets that this attitude spread from England to America, but he is encouraged by signs that intelligence is becoming less and less suspect. It is his opinion that intelligence and morality, far from Notes from the artist: "The ...
Erskine regrets that this attitude spread from England to America, but he is encouraged by signs that intelligence is becoming less and less suspect. It is his opinion that intelligence and morality, far from Notes from the artist: "The ...
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They scatter less influence , but more seeds . If from Goethe we turn to Faust — and it is as the author of Faust only that we shall consider him — the situation is not less ambiguous . In the play , as the as the young Goethe first ...
They scatter less influence , but more seeds . If from Goethe we turn to Faust — and it is as the author of Faust only that we shall consider him — the situation is not less ambiguous . In the play , as the as the young Goethe first ...
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One of these less amiable spirits of the atmosphere , especially of its ambient fire , is the Mephistopheles of Goethe . Why he delighted in evil rather than in good he himself explains in a profound and ingenious fashion .
One of these less amiable spirits of the atmosphere , especially of its ambient fire , is the Mephistopheles of Goethe . Why he delighted in evil rather than in good he himself explains in a profound and ingenious fashion .
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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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