The Art of Growing OldJ. Cape, 1944 - 218 pages |
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Page 22
... detachment from the ordinary business of life , detachment from our immediate occupation and duty , seem to be an essential condition for the half - discovery and half - creation - to use Wordsworth's description of what the mind does ...
... detachment from the ordinary business of life , detachment from our immediate occupation and duty , seem to be an essential condition for the half - discovery and half - creation - to use Wordsworth's description of what the mind does ...
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... detach- ment from the bonds of Nature natural to a Father and a Statesman , he could imagine better what went on in his daughter's mind than she could what went on in his . And the same detachment from Nature of every man alive , that ...
... detach- ment from the bonds of Nature natural to a Father and a Statesman , he could imagine better what went on in his daughter's mind than she could what went on in his . And the same detachment from Nature of every man alive , that ...
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... detachment is necessary , a detachment from all the pseudo - scientific verbiage which spawns and spreads in our crowded Centres of Civilization . Not for a moment would I suggest that this desirable detachment from the world , this ...
... detachment is necessary , a detachment from all the pseudo - scientific verbiage which spawns and spreads in our crowded Centres of Civilization . Not for a moment would I suggest that this desirable detachment from the world , this ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION L | 7 |
OLD AGE IN MAN AND WOMAN | 26 |
FEMININE OLD AGE AND NATURE | 37 |
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