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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... fear - has obeyed from the beginning the discipline of intelligence . We are told that to kill one's aging parents was once a demonstration of solicitude ; about the same time men hungered for raw meat and feared the sun's eclipse ...
... fear - has obeyed from the beginning the discipline of intelligence . We are told that to kill one's aging parents was once a demonstration of solicitude ; about the same time men hungered for raw meat and feared the sun's eclipse ...
Page 348
... 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 the wages of sin and passage to another world , is holy and religious ; but the fear ...
... 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 the wages of sin and passage to another world , is holy and religious ; but the fear ...
Page 381
... fear it , you fear a word . To all this , perhaps , Memmius , or some other recalcitrant reader , might retort that what he shrank from was not the metaphysical state of being dead , but the very real agony of dying . Dying is something ...
... fear it , you fear a word . To all this , perhaps , Memmius , or some other recalcitrant reader , might retort that what he shrank from was not the metaphysical state of being dead , but the very real agony of dying . Dying is something ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
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