The Art of Growing OldJ. Cape, 1944 - 218 pages |
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Page 64
... seems to come simultaneously with the awakening of any self- consciousness at all ! There are , it would seem , certain inescapable processes to be passed through in this analysis . In the first place we are merely aware that the ' I ...
... seems to come simultaneously with the awakening of any self- consciousness at all ! There are , it would seem , certain inescapable processes to be passed through in this analysis . In the first place we are merely aware that the ' I ...
Page 153
... seems to be that the Homeric attitude to life is the one to which the generations of mankind naturally revert when the Messiahs and the Prophets and the Politicians and the Priests and the Law- givers and the revolutionary and ...
... seems to be that the Homeric attitude to life is the one to which the generations of mankind naturally revert when the Messiahs and the Prophets and the Politicians and the Priests and the Law- givers and the revolutionary and ...
Page 195
... seems to us like a miracle . But if I may be permitted to regard myself , with my Welsh name , as a typical aboriginal Welshman , I seem to detect a singular resemblance between the contemplative humour of the Chinese , so whimsically ...
... seems to us like a miracle . But if I may be permitted to regard myself , with my Welsh name , as a typical aboriginal Welshman , I seem to detect a singular resemblance between the contemplative humour of the Chinese , so whimsically ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION L | 7 |
OLD AGE IN MAN AND WOMAN | 26 |
FEMININE OLD AGE AND NATURE | 37 |
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