The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 121Atlantic Monthly Company, 1918 - American essays |
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Page 578
... death is not only at variance with the attitude of the accepted leaders of thought , still honestly agnostic , but is contradictory to its own attitude of only a few years ago , when death was still the isolated , not the average , ex ...
... death is not only at variance with the attitude of the accepted leaders of thought , still honestly agnostic , but is contradictory to its own attitude of only a few years ago , when death was still the isolated , not the average , ex ...
Page 584
New Death , its essentially practical ac- ceptance of immortality , its essentially practical approach to God . Both the bereaved and the young men dead view survival under several different aspects . Created out of a yearning for the ...
New Death , its essentially practical ac- ceptance of immortality , its essentially practical approach to God . Both the bereaved and the young men dead view survival under several different aspects . Created out of a yearning for the ...
Page 589
... Death liberates us from our paralyzing puniness by its vista of each man's power to adapt his mortal course to its immortal promise . As the new intimacy with death frees us from the fear of our own dis- solution , transmuting dread ...
... Death liberates us from our paralyzing puniness by its vista of each man's power to adapt his mortal course to its immortal promise . As the new intimacy with death frees us from the fear of our own dis- solution , transmuting dread ...
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