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... reason which makes it the most satisfying . In this the relation of the lovers is taken to be one in which spiritual harmony and physical passion co - exist , with no question of either dominating over or transmuting the other , but ...
... reason which makes it the most satisfying . In this the relation of the lovers is taken to be one in which spiritual harmony and physical passion co - exist , with no question of either dominating over or transmuting the other , but ...
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... reason , forgetting that the spirit of man cannot live by reason alone . There was , I suppose , more good sound sense talked in the eighteenth century than in any other century in our history . But there was also a great deal of ...
... reason , forgetting that the spirit of man cannot live by reason alone . There was , I suppose , more good sound sense talked in the eighteenth century than in any other century in our history . But there was also a great deal of ...
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... reason but with feeling and imagination . And of all human faculties reason is the most constant as between one man and another , so that the rational processes of one man will differ from those of his neighbour only in proportion to ...
... reason but with feeling and imagination . And of all human faculties reason is the most constant as between one man and another , so that the rational processes of one man will differ from those of his neighbour only in proportion to ...
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