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 339
... death of young men seems to me like putting out a great fire with a deluge of water ; but old men die like a fire going out because it has burnt down of its own nature without artificial means . Again , just as apples when unripe are ...
... death of young men seems to me like putting out a great fire with a deluge of water ; but old men die like a fire going out because it has burnt down of its own nature without artificial means . Again , just as apples when unripe are ...
Page 348
Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler. Of Death M en fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales , so is the other . Certainly , the contemplation of death , as ...
Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler. Of Death M en fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales , so is the other . Certainly , the contemplation of death , as ...
Page 381
... death were merely the fear of dying , it would be better dealt with by medicine than by argument . There is , or there might be , an art of dying well , of dying painlessly , willingly , and in season — as in those noble part- ings ...
... death were merely the fear of dying , it would be better dealt with by medicine than by argument . There is , or there might be , an art of dying well , of dying painlessly , willingly , and in season — as in those noble part- ings ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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