The Art of Growing OldJ. Cape, 1944 - 218 pages |
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Page 34
... experience . What I feel , and I have an inkling you must feel the same , is as if the whole chamber with its two ... experience , an experience of a more vivid and immediate sort than the impression which naturally comes next , namely ...
... experience . What I feel , and I have an inkling you must feel the same , is as if the whole chamber with its two ... experience , an experience of a more vivid and immediate sort than the impression which naturally comes next , namely ...
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... experience where the distinction between what we call selfish- ness and unselfishness vanishes away . In any human crisis , in any mortal extremity , the use of this power has an effect that transcends our personal identity . Judging ...
... experience where the distinction between what we call selfish- ness and unselfishness vanishes away . In any human crisis , in any mortal extremity , the use of this power has an effect that transcends our personal identity . Judging ...
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... experience that philosophers are more difficult still . And what does this mean ? Well ! simply that the most subtle knowledge of Good and Evil is powerless in itself to make us good , unless in the mêlée of life we have been , like ...
... experience that philosophers are more difficult still . And what does this mean ? Well ! simply that the most subtle knowledge of Good and Evil is powerless in itself to make us good , unless in the mêlée of life we have been , like ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION L | 7 |
OLD AGE IN MAN AND WOMAN | 26 |
FEMININE OLD AGE AND NATURE | 37 |
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