The Art of Growing OldJ. Cape, 1944 - 218 pages |
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Page 72
... mystery , and the dingiest masonry as another mystery , in the same incomprehensible procession of world - stuff out of which our whole terrestial Dimension is made . The advantage to old age , whether masculine or feminine , of the ...
... mystery , and the dingiest masonry as another mystery , in the same incomprehensible procession of world - stuff out of which our whole terrestial Dimension is made . The advantage to old age , whether masculine or feminine , of the ...
Page 109
... mystery of pain - and the sharper that mystery the less can mysticism help us into a living relation with the problem of Good and Evil . - The worst of even the best Philosophical System as far as the mystery of Good and Evil is ...
... mystery of pain - and the sharper that mystery the less can mysticism help us into a living relation with the problem of Good and Evil . - The worst of even the best Philosophical System as far as the mystery of Good and Evil is ...
Page 133
... mysterious . The former is charged with every sort of illusion and with every kind of ambiguity and trickery . The latter is an incontrovertible fact . The World , with everything in it , is indeed a mystery ; but it is not a mystery ...
... mysterious . The former is charged with every sort of illusion and with every kind of ambiguity and trickery . The latter is an incontrovertible fact . The World , with everything in it , is indeed a mystery ; but it is not a mystery ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION L | 7 |
OLD AGE IN MAN AND WOMAN | 26 |
FEMININE OLD AGE AND NATURE | 37 |
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