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... immortality . It was indeed the hope of immortality , said Everett , that was " one of the strongest incentives to good conduct . " 14 The conservatives attempted to contain the excesses of a vulgar democracy by treating Americans as ...
... immortality . It was indeed the hope of immortality , said Everett , that was " one of the strongest incentives to good conduct . " 14 The conservatives attempted to contain the excesses of a vulgar democracy by treating Americans as ...
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... immortality that came with total identification with Mother Nature . " Some- times a mortal feels in himself Nature , not his father but his Mother stirs within him , and he becomes immortal with her immortality , " Thoreau wrote ...
... immortality that came with total identification with Mother Nature . " Some- times a mortal feels in himself Nature , not his father but his Mother stirs within him , and he becomes immortal with her immortality , " Thoreau wrote ...
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... immortal , he acts as though he has heeded Lincoln's exhortation , for he has lost the capacity to distinguish himself from the nation , and he seeks the immortality of the self by symbolic identification with the immortality of the ...
... immortal , he acts as though he has heeded Lincoln's exhortation , for he has lost the capacity to distinguish himself from the nation , and he seeks the immortality of the self by symbolic identification with the immortality of the ...
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