The Art of Growing OldJ. Cape, 1944 - 218 pages |
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... sense as Goethe or Wordsworth or Emerson would use it , or used in the ordinary popular sense , Nature thus considered includes the whole weight , mass , and volume of all the multitudinous objects , animate and inanimate , brought into ...
... sense as Goethe or Wordsworth or Emerson would use it , or used in the ordinary popular sense , Nature thus considered includes the whole weight , mass , and volume of all the multitudinous objects , animate and inanimate , brought into ...
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... sense . Nor must it be forgotten that what common sense itself uses as its instrument for fathoming the depths , sounding the shallows , calculating the distance of the horizon , is humility . When old people make use of this divine ...
... sense . Nor must it be forgotten that what common sense itself uses as its instrument for fathoming the depths , sounding the shallows , calculating the distance of the horizon , is humility . When old people make use of this divine ...
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... sense aspects of Nature just as Nature in another sense is an aspect of the life and death of every living thing . In one sense you can say that Nature is completely indifferent to the fate of individual men and women ; but in another sense ...
... sense aspects of Nature just as Nature in another sense is an aspect of the life and death of every living thing . In one sense you can say that Nature is completely indifferent to the fate of individual men and women ; but in another sense ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION L | 7 |
OLD AGE IN MAN AND WOMAN | 26 |
FEMININE OLD AGE AND NATURE | 37 |
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