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Page 41
... becoming was still merged in the concrete image of birth : the words genesis , gignesthai , continue to be used for both . In the mythical stage the accompaniments and associations of birth , and therefore of sex , are still involved in ...
... becoming was still merged in the concrete image of birth : the words genesis , gignesthai , continue to be used for both . In the mythical stage the accompaniments and associations of birth , and therefore of sex , are still involved in ...
Page 42
... become dissociated in the language of prose . After the primitive stage of genuine myth - making , there is a transitional period , in which the old images and symbols are retained , but with a nascent consciousness that they do go ...
... become dissociated in the language of prose . After the primitive stage of genuine myth - making , there is a transitional period , in which the old images and symbols are retained , but with a nascent consciousness that they do go ...
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... becomes the philosophic impulse to grasp abstract truth and to discover that kind of beauty which the geo- meter finds in ... become a god , knowing good from evil with such clearness and certainty as could not fail to determine the will ...
... becomes the philosophic impulse to grasp abstract truth and to discover that kind of beauty which the geo- meter finds in ... become a god , knowing good from evil with such clearness and certainty as could not fail to determine the will ...
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The Harmony of the Spheres 1930 | 14 |
The Unwritten Philosophy 1935 | 28 |
Platos Commonwealth 1935 | 47 |
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