The Borzoi College ReaderCharles Muscatine, Marlene Griffith |
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Page 61
... symbols fit this modern reality , this shrunken and undifferentiated world in which we lead a purely economic , secular , essentially homeless life . But mankind is never without its social symbols ; when old ones die , new ones are ...
... symbols fit this modern reality , this shrunken and undifferentiated world in which we lead a purely economic , secular , essentially homeless life . But mankind is never without its social symbols ; when old ones die , new ones are ...
Page 65
... symbol stands directly for its meaning : in religious experience , for instance , the Host is not only a symbol but a Presence . But symbols in the ordinary sense are not mystic . They are the same sort of thing that ordinary signs are ...
... symbol stands directly for its meaning : in religious experience , for instance , the Host is not only a symbol but a Presence . But symbols in the ordinary sense are not mystic . They are the same sort of thing that ordinary signs are ...
Page 68
... symbols refer to ideas , which are not physically there for inspection , so their connections and features have to ... symbols , of contemplating and combin- ing and distorting symbols , goes beyond the confines of language . All images ...
... symbols refer to ideas , which are not physically there for inspection , so their connections and features have to ... symbols , of contemplating and combin- ing and distorting symbols , goes beyond the confines of language . All images ...
Contents
THE NECESSITY FOR THINKING | 3 |
John Henry Newman | 43 |
THE RIGHT USE OF LANGUAGE | 57 |
Copyright | |
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