The Art of Growing OldJ. Cape, 1944 - 218 pages |
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Page 110
... Pain and the Mystery of Chance . ― No wonder the man - in - the - street , and Heaven help us ! the man in the farmyard too , not to speak of the woman at the wash - tub , has been from time immemorial addicted to ' touching wood ' and ...
... Pain and the Mystery of Chance . ― No wonder the man - in - the - street , and Heaven help us ! the man in the farmyard too , not to speak of the woman at the wash - tub , has been from time immemorial addicted to ' touching wood ' and ...
Page 111
... Pain can never be forgotten . The attainment of perspective – that is the natural aim of all living things ; and the only true perspective , the only true focus , from which to regard Good and Evil and to discriminate properly between ...
... Pain can never be forgotten . The attainment of perspective – that is the natural aim of all living things ; and the only true perspective , the only true focus , from which to regard Good and Evil and to discriminate properly between ...
Page 113
... Pain , be reconsidered in a thousand specific cases . And the same applies to the unqualified prohibition about ' committing adultery ' and the unqualified condemnation , based too obviously upon the questionable ' status - quo ' of the ...
... Pain , be reconsidered in a thousand specific cases . And the same applies to the unqualified prohibition about ' committing adultery ' and the unqualified condemnation , based too obviously upon the questionable ' status - quo ' of the ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION L | 7 |
OLD AGE IN MAN AND WOMAN | 26 |
FEMININE OLD AGE AND NATURE | 37 |
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