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... idea' of courage, before it can be called an idea, may assume the recallable image of a lion. To pass from what is internal, unconscious, and private, to a public world which can be shared by other men is the next stage in ...
... idea' of courage, before it can be called an idea, may assume the recallable image of a lion. To pass from what is internal, unconscious, and private, to a public world which can be shared by other men is the next stage in ...
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... idea would be doomed unless similar impulses were beginning to find a corporeal form in thousands of other personalities: it is only by this general readiness, in fact, that the formative idea can imprint itself, by direct contact and ...
... idea would be doomed unless similar impulses were beginning to find a corporeal form in thousands of other personalities: it is only by this general readiness, in fact, that the formative idea can imprint itself, by direct contact and ...
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... idea, starts at just the opposite end by attacking the visible structures and organizations which, so long as they remain in good working order, allow no place for a new idea to take hold. The path of etherialization, then, is often ...
... idea, starts at just the opposite end by attacking the visible structures and organizations which, so long as they remain in good working order, allow no place for a new idea to take hold. The path of etherialization, then, is often ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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