Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essaysRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 - 644 pages Complements Great Books of the Western World; includes only short works and excerpts from longer works. |
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Page 399
... Faust . He longs for grandiose solitudes . He feels that moonlight , caves , mountains , driving clouds would be his best medicine and his best counselors . The souls of Rousseau , Byron , and Shelley are preincarnate in this Faust ...
... Faust . He longs for grandiose solitudes . He feels that moonlight , caves , mountains , driving clouds would be his best medicine and his best counselors . The souls of Rousseau , Byron , and Shelley are preincarnate in this Faust ...
Page 411
... Faust's fortunes actually finds him a trader , a states- man , an empire builder ; and if such a rolling stone could gather any moss , we should expect to see here , if anywhere , the fruits of that " aesthetic education of mankind ...
... Faust's fortunes actually finds him a trader , a states- man , an empire builder ; and if such a rolling stone could gather any moss , we should expect to see here , if anywhere , the fruits of that " aesthetic education of mankind ...
Page 416
... Faust with satisfaction , how much more must the wonderful career of Faust himself deserve to be accepted and envied , and pro- claimed to be its own excuse for being ! The faults of Faust in time are not counted against him in eternity ...
... Faust with satisfaction , how much more must the wonderful career of Faust himself deserve to be accepted and envied , and pro- claimed to be its own excuse for being ! The faults of Faust in time are not counted against him in eternity ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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