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... achieved , it would in its very perfection bring about a new kind of evil : it would arrest life and stultify it ; for it would no longer pro- duce the kind of disruption and conflict out of which higher forms of life become possible ...
... achieved , it would in its very perfection bring about a new kind of evil : it would arrest life and stultify it ; for it would no longer pro- duce the kind of disruption and conflict out of which higher forms of life become possible ...
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... achieved , the conditions that had been so favorable to the balanced personality in the fifth century had been undermined : a Time of Trouble is , almost by definition , a time of imbalance and distortion . But there was likewise a good ...
... achieved , the conditions that had been so favorable to the balanced personality in the fifth century had been undermined : a Time of Trouble is , almost by definition , a time of imbalance and distortion . But there was likewise a good ...
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... achieve a view of the external world in which his own wishes and hopes and fantasies should play as small a part as possible in coloring the re- sults . In consequence of this displacement of the person , he has achieved law and order ...
... achieve a view of the external world in which his own wishes and hopes and fantasies should play as small a part as possible in coloring the re- sults . In consequence of this displacement of the person , he has achieved law and order ...
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THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF | 92 |
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