Comedy, Meaning and FormRobert Willoughby Corrigan |
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... living uni- verse is the most elementary instinctual purpose . An organism tends to keep its equilibrium amid the bombardment of aimless forces that beset it , to regain equilibrium when it has been disturbed , and to pursue a sequence ...
... living uni- verse is the most elementary instinctual purpose . An organism tends to keep its equilibrium amid the bombardment of aimless forces that beset it , to regain equilibrium when it has been disturbed , and to pursue a sequence ...
Page 475
... living dovetailed into each other makes us incline towards the vaguer image of some rigidity or other applied to the mobility of life , in an awk- ward attempt to follow its lines and counterfeit its suppleness . Here we perceive how ...
... living dovetailed into each other makes us incline towards the vaguer image of some rigidity or other applied to the mobility of life , in an awk- ward attempt to follow its lines and counterfeit its suppleness . Here we perceive how ...
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... living body , it is because we disregard in it the elements of weight , of re- sistance , and , in a word , of matter ; we forget its materiality and think only of its vitality , a vitality which we regard as derived from the very ...
... living body , it is because we disregard in it the elements of weight , of re- sistance , and , in a word , of matter ; we forget its materiality and think only of its vitality , a vitality which we regard as derived from the very ...
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