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A strong feeling of ease , peace , rest is one of them . The transition from a state of puzzle and perplexity to rational comprehension is full of lively relief and pleasure . But this relief seems to be a negative rather than a ...
A strong feeling of ease , peace , rest is one of them . The transition from a state of puzzle and perplexity to rational comprehension is full of lively relief and pleasure . But this relief seems to be a negative rather than a ...
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any single star excite feelings which make all human enterprises and powers appear so insignificant that to a mind thus occupied ... constitutes their sublimity — a feeling in all cases more allied to terror than to any moral emotion .
any single star excite feelings which make all human enterprises and powers appear so insignificant that to a mind thus occupied ... constitutes their sublimity — a feeling in all cases more allied to terror than to any moral emotion .
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His On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth provides some excellent examples . We are all young or have been . Thus we are all capable of judging the truth of the feelings he describes , though perhaps in different and limited ways .
His On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth provides some excellent examples . We are all young or have been . Thus we are all capable of judging the truth of the feelings he describes , though perhaps in different and limited ways .
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 580 pages |
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