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So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons ago.

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Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give…
So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons…
We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be…
Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing galaxies, each a swarm of stars, was composed wholly of star-corpses. These dark grains…
Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived…
He should avail himself of their resources in such ways as to advance the expression of the spirit in the life of…
Sooner or later for good or ill, a united mankind, equipped with science and power, will probably turn its attention to the…
That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.
My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing…
All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort,…
Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.
Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.

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