The Modern Temper: A Study and a Confession"A study of the various tendencies in contemporary thought and a confession of the mood which submission to these tendencies has engendered.". |
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... contemporary writer upon philosophy , ethics , or esthetics whose speculations do not lead him to it in one form or another , and even the less reflective are aware of it in their own way . Both our practical morality and our emotional ...
... contemporary writer upon philosophy , ethics , or esthetics whose speculations do not lead him to it in one form or another , and even the less reflective are aware of it in their own way . Both our practical morality and our emotional ...
Page 97
... contemporary life or its reflection in con- temporary literature to enable one to perceive that this life hardly corresponds to the anticipation . Freedom has come , but with it a certain lessened sense of the importance of the passions ...
... contemporary life or its reflection in con- temporary literature to enable one to perceive that this life hardly corresponds to the anticipation . Freedom has come , but with it a certain lessened sense of the importance of the passions ...
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... Contemporary theologians , driven as they are to the last extremity , may eagerly hail the feeble sanction of an " as if , ” but they must realize that it is not very satisfactory even as a faut de mieux and that though they may ...
... Contemporary theologians , driven as they are to the last extremity , may eagerly hail the feeble sanction of an " as if , ” but they must realize that it is not very satisfactory even as a faut de mieux and that though they may ...
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