Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... society : " People who will not remember their ancestors will forget their posterity . " The extended family is breaking up ; long established homes are being replaced by trailer parks ; Emerson's perception " Movement is all " might ...
... society : " People who will not remember their ancestors will forget their posterity . " The extended family is breaking up ; long established homes are being replaced by trailer parks ; Emerson's perception " Movement is all " might ...
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... societies - even in the midst of Reisman's " Lonely Crowd . " He identifies the slush tide of pornography as one of ... society just by feeling at home in it , with no self - whittling away of personality in activistic parlor - tricks ...
... societies - even in the midst of Reisman's " Lonely Crowd . " He identifies the slush tide of pornography as one of ... society just by feeling at home in it , with no self - whittling away of personality in activistic parlor - tricks ...
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... Society than court - uniformed Goethe bowing in ducal palaces . Did Thoreau not meticulously set three chairs in his self - made cabin ? One for self and solitude ; the second for friends ( of which there can always be only a few ) ...
... Society than court - uniformed Goethe bowing in ducal palaces . Did Thoreau not meticulously set three chairs in his self - made cabin ? One for self and solitude ; the second for friends ( of which there can always be only a few ) ...
Contents
Preface Foreword Poem Sonnet to Death Chapter I The Ferries at Bayhead Death as Natural Transition | 1 |
Last Things First Necessity of a Point of View | 11 |
God on Trial The Problem of Evil | 19 |
Copyright | |
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