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Page 57
... universe which is least the concern of man . The climber is not less susceptible to the ordinary beauty of the mountains , if I may call it such this power they have to stir such subtly mingled feel- ings when they are seen from below ...
... universe which is least the concern of man . The climber is not less susceptible to the ordinary beauty of the mountains , if I may call it such this power they have to stir such subtly mingled feel- ings when they are seen from below ...
Page 167
... universe is exactly as he wishes it to be . All his needs are satisfied before even he becomes aware of them , and if his awareness is dim , that is but the natural result of a com- plete harmony between the self and the environment ...
... universe is exactly as he wishes it to be . All his needs are satisfied before even he becomes aware of them , and if his awareness is dim , that is but the natural result of a com- plete harmony between the self and the environment ...
Page 168
... universe also . The earth is the centre of all existing things , man is the child and the protégé of those gods who transcend and who will ultimately enable him to transcend all the evils which he has been compelled to rec- ognize . The ...
... universe also . The earth is the centre of all existing things , man is the child and the protégé of those gods who transcend and who will ultimately enable him to transcend all the evils which he has been compelled to rec- ognize . The ...
Page 169
... universe was rational if he could only grasp its rationality , but gradually he comes to suspect that rationality is an attribute of himself alone and that there is no reason to sup- pose that his own life has any more meaning than the ...
... universe was rational if he could only grasp its rationality , but gradually he comes to suspect that rationality is an attribute of himself alone and that there is no reason to sup- pose that his own life has any more meaning than the ...
Page 170
... universe has man as its centre and is hence under- standable in his terms , but this implica- tion was disregarded just as , a little later , the implications of the theory of evolution were similarly disregarded . It is not likely that ...
... universe has man as its centre and is hence under- standable in his terms , but this implica- tion was disregarded just as , a little later , the implications of the theory of evolution were similarly disregarded . It is not likely that ...
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