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Page 77
... called John Jasper - Strangler in The American Bookman of February , 1930. Mr. Duffield has here shown conclusively that Jasper is supposed to be a member of the Indian sect of Thugs , who made a profession of ingratiating them- selves ...
... called John Jasper - Strangler in The American Bookman of February , 1930. Mr. Duffield has here shown conclusively that Jasper is supposed to be a member of the Indian sect of Thugs , who made a profession of ingratiating them- selves ...
Page 178
... called today masochistic as well as what is called sadistic . He furiously announces again and again that he would like to wipe out the human race , to pulverize the universe : " It is she [ Nature ] that I desire to outrage . I should ...
... called today masochistic as well as what is called sadistic . He furiously announces again and again that he would like to wipe out the human race , to pulverize the universe : " It is she [ Nature ] that I desire to outrage . I should ...
Page 234
... called " the uplift " and what Holmes called " the upward and onward . " He shies away when he detects any symptoms that remind him of the fanaticisms of war- time . " He [ Bertrand Russell ] seems to me , " he writes to Laski in ...
... called " the uplift " and what Holmes called " the upward and onward . " He shies away when he detects any symptoms that remind him of the fanaticisms of war- time . " He [ Bertrand Russell ] seems to me , " he writes to Laski in ...
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