Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... true master teacher of the art of dying well , as was Dismas . We have a true kinship with them inasmuch as we are all murderers or thieves of time interlocked in what Hawthorne loved to call the Communion of Sinners . In his book on ...
... true master teacher of the art of dying well , as was Dismas . We have a true kinship with them inasmuch as we are all murderers or thieves of time interlocked in what Hawthorne loved to call the Communion of Sinners . In his book on ...
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... true that he had been twice imprisoned in the Bastille and twice exiled , from which ( like Candide ) he had emerged stronger . It is also true that he kept his elegant Chateau de Ferney conveniently close to the Swiss frontier , a ...
... true that he had been twice imprisoned in the Bastille and twice exiled , from which ( like Candide ) he had emerged stronger . It is also true that he kept his elegant Chateau de Ferney conveniently close to the Swiss frontier , a ...
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... true . Science does not announce break- throughs prematurely . To say that many doctors and nurses are themselves ... true journey - man , as well as master artist . It is true that his lifelong friend , President Franklin Pierce , had ...
... true . Science does not announce break- throughs prematurely . To say that many doctors and nurses are themselves ... true journey - man , as well as master artist . It is true that his lifelong friend , President Franklin Pierce , had ...
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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