The Art of Growing OldJ. Cape, 1944 - 218 pages |
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Page 59
... man and the stream of life , but between the old man and his own soul . I would in fact go so far as to say that while a woman's Life - Illusion makes warm and supple and thick and soft her most intimate skin , a man's covers his skin ...
... man and the stream of life , but between the old man and his own soul . I would in fact go so far as to say that while a woman's Life - Illusion makes warm and supple and thick and soft her most intimate skin , a man's covers his skin ...
Page 79
... man and a woman where the question at issue touches the ancient problem of Good and Evil , and you will recog- nize no ... man's arguments are all positive ones ; but before long we shall note that this positivity in his method is ...
... man and a woman where the question at issue touches the ancient problem of Good and Evil , and you will recog- nize no ... man's arguments are all positive ones ; but before long we shall note that this positivity in his method is ...
Page 178
... Man may be anything just because essentially he is nothing . The only oracle of God is , as Emily Brontë held , the God within a separate individual breast . The only true morality is that of the common man's conscience and the common man's ...
... Man may be anything just because essentially he is nothing . The only oracle of God is , as Emily Brontë held , the God within a separate individual breast . The only true morality is that of the common man's conscience and the common man's ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION L | 7 |
OLD AGE IN MAN AND WOMAN | 26 |
FEMININE OLD AGE AND NATURE | 37 |
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