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Page 213
... live meanly , like ants ; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men ; like pygmies we fight with cranes ; it is error upon error , and clout upon clout , and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and ...
... live meanly , like ants ; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men ; like pygmies we fight with cranes ; it is error upon error , and clout upon clout , and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and ...
Page 488
... live moral lives without any religious convictions . But the question is whether a whole civilization , a whole family of peoples , composed almost entirely of relatively uneducated men and women , can do this . It follows , of course ...
... live moral lives without any religious convictions . But the question is whether a whole civilization , a whole family of peoples , composed almost entirely of relatively uneducated men and women , can do this . It follows , of course ...
Page 489
... lives by truth , and that the truth will make us free . Nearly the opposite seems to me to be the case . Mankind has managed to live only by means of lies , and the truth may very well destroy us . If one were a Bergsonian one might ...
... lives by truth , and that the truth will make us free . Nearly the opposite seems to me to be the case . Mankind has managed to live only by means of lies , and the truth may very well destroy us . If one were a Bergsonian one might ...
Contents
PART ONE APPROACHES TO EDUCATION | 3 |
THE STUDENTS POINT OF VIEW | 16 |
I Go to College and I Become a Student | 26 |
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