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Abuse, Trauma, And Torture, And Their Consequences and Effects

By: Sam Vaknin

...H. The Chicago Institute Lectures 1972-1976. Marian and Paul Tolpin (Eds.). Analytic Press, 1998 18. Kohut M. The Analysis of the Self. New York, I... ...semesters in the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western University, ... ...hology ("Malignant Self Love") - An Open Directory Cool Site for 8 years. – Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), – Economics and Geopolitics ("World... ... in many countries. Many appearances in the electronic media on subjects in philosophy and the sciences, and concerning economic matters. Write to ... ...tp://ceeandbalkan.tripod.com/ Psychology: http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/ Philosophy: http://philosophos.tripod.com/ Poetry: http://samvak.tripod.c...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...ssive, coercive, or bureaucratic." (Honderich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) A... ...ed: Natural Selection IS the vital power itself. Modern Physics is converging with Philosophy (possibly with the philosophical side of Religion as ... ...ors and, lately, by (neuronal) network metaphors. Metaphors are not confined to the philosophy of neurology. Architects and mathematicians, for inst... ...ck to the future", communism was surely "forward to the past". Competition A. THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPETITION The aims of competition (anti-trust) l... ...ehead concluded that mathematics was a branch of the logic of sets and that it is analytical. In other words: the language with which we analyse t... ...ure of things because they are, at bottom, self referential (equivalent to Kant's "analytic propositions"). IIC. Kant According to Kant, our sens... ...society of lack of self- awareness. But choice of words does not a coherence make. Analytic Summary of Kimball Lasch was a member, by conviction, o... ...sly critical sensibility exemplified by psychoanalysis and the degeneration of the 'analytic attitude' into an all out assault on ideals of every ki... ...ather than as a basis for enlightenment. The solution was to blend Marxism and the analytic method of Psychoanalysis (very much as Herbert Marcuse ...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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The Conundrums of Psychology

By: Sam Vaknin

...ors and, lately, by (neuronal) network metaphors. Metaphors are not confined to the philosophy of neurology. Architects and mathematicians, for inst... ... post facto and ad hoc constructions. None of this has methodological, systematic, analytic and predictive merits. Still, the theories in psycholog... ...ent view of the scientific endeavor competes with a more modest, semantic school of philosophy of science. Many theories - especially ones with bre... ..., post facto and ad hoc constructions. None of this has methodological, systematic, analytic and predictive merits. Still, the theories in psycholo... ... post facto and ad hoc constructions. None of this has methodological, systematic, analytic and predictive merits. Still, these theories are powerf... ... a few semesters in the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western Univ... ...eb sites in: – Psychology ("Malignant Self Love") – An Open Directory Cool Site, – Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), – Economics and Geopolitic... ...iodicals in many countries. Many appearances in the electronic media on subjects in philosophy and the sciences, and concerning economic matters. ...

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The Fundamental Assumptions Underlying the Modern Study of Psychopathology Examined.

By: Sam Vaknin

...(H. Kohut. The Chicago Institute Lectures 1972-1976. Marian and Paul Tolpin (Eds.). Analytic Press, 1998) Kohut's contention is nothing less than re... ...ive dimension of the experience. If a psychological process lacks the evaluative or analytic elements, this lack does not question its existence or ... ...A: The Pennsylvania State University Press, Quoted in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Parenting is possibly an irrational vocation, but h... ...er activists, says Meyerowitz, insist that gender and sexuality represent "distinct analytical categories". The New York Times wrote in its review o... ... a few semesters in the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western Univ... ...eb sites in: – Psychology ("Malignant Self Love") – An Open Directory Cool Site, – Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), – Economics and Geopolitic... ...iodicals in many countries. Many appearances in the electronic media on subjects in philosophy and the sciences, and concerning economic matters. ... ...tics: http://ceeandbalkan.tripod.com/ Psychology: http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/ Philosophy: http://philosophos.tripod.com/ Poetry: http://samvak....

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Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...E M E A N I N G O F L I F E 10 In his book, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687), Isaac Newton (1642-1727) proposed a theory of mecha... ...of Truth. M I C H A E L L A I T M A N , P H D Rav Michael Laitman has a PhD in Philosophy from the Russian Academy of Science and an MSc in Bio-Cyber... ...h for a place where I could study the general systems of reality. I turned to philosophy, but before long realized that the answer was not to be fou... ...rely on practical experimenta- tion. Hence, this process is entirely reliable. Philosophy, however, engages in ideals abstracted from Mat- ter. It is ... ... the method of Kabbalah because it is founded on the study of Abstract Forms. Philosophy discuss- es qualities such as truth, falsehood, anger, and v... ...sations and impressions of the spiritual world that enrich the new memory and analytic abilities of the new mind. Consequently, the world-picture cr...

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The Malignan Self Love : Narcissism Revisited

By: Sam Vaknin

..., 1964-75 18. Kohut H. The Chicago Institute Lectures 1972-1976. Marian and Paul Tolpin (Eds.). Analytic Press, 1998 19. Kohut M. The Analysis of t... ...on Graduated a few semesters in the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific ... ...f extensive Web sites in: – Psychology ("Malignant Self Love") – An Open Directory Cool Site, – Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), – Economics a... ...and Web periodicals in many countries. Many appearances in the electronic media on subjects in philosophy and the sciences, and concerning economic... ... Economy/Politics: http://ceeandbalkan.tripod.com/ Psychology: http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/ Philosophy: http://philosophos.tripod.com/ Poetry: h...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...ssive, coercive, or bureaucratic." (Honderich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) A... ...ed: Natural Selection IS the vital power itself. Modern Physics is converging with Philosophy (possibly with the philosophical side of Religion as ... ...ors and, lately, by (neuronal) network metaphors. Metaphors are not confined to the philosophy of neurology. Architects and mathematicians, for inst... ...ck to the future", communism was surely "forward to the past". Competition A. THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPETITION The aims of competition (anti-trust) l... ...ehead concluded that mathematics was a branch of the logic of sets and that it is analytical. In other words: the language with which we analyse t... ...ure of things because they are, at bottom, self referential (equivalent to Kant's "analytic propositions"). IIC. Kant According to Kant, our sens... ...society of lack of self- awareness. But choice of words does not a coherence make. Analytic Summary of Kimball Lasch was a member, by conviction, o... ...sly critical sensibility exemplified by psychoanalysis and the degeneration of the 'analytic attitude' into an all out assault on ideals of every ki... ...ather than as a basis for enlightenment. The solution was to blend Marxism and the analytic method of Psychoanalysis (very much as Herbert Marcuse ...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

...H. The Chicago Institute Lectures 1972-1976. Marian and Paul Tolpin (Eds.). Analytic Press, 1998 18. Kohut M. The Analysis of the Self. New York, I... ...rush to pieces many an object in its path." (G.W.F . Hegel, "Lectures on the Philosophy of History") "Such beings are incalculable, they come like fat... ...semesters in the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western University, ... ...hology ("Malignant Self Love") - An Open Directory Cool Site for 8 years. – Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), – Economics and Geopolitics ("World... ... in many countries. Many appearances in the electronic media on subjects in philosophy and the sciences, and concerning economic matters. Write to ... ...tp://ceeandbalkan.tripod.com/ Psychology: http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/ Philosophy: http://philosophos.tripod.com/ Poetry: http://samvak.tripod.c...

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The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues

By: Seymour Fine

...ever been, taken as the spread of propaganda. Another reason for adopting this philosophy is that the word propaganda suffers from pejorative co... ...nts and needs reign supreme.) The Marketing Concept The marketing concept is the philosophy that the consumer's interest is the starting point if n... ...istics by which one discipline can be distinguished from another is the particular philosophy or method customarily employed by each discipline in so... ...rts intervally scaled variables into ordinal or nominal classes to meet particular analytic needs. Here, the need is simply to create a manageably ... ...anding and teasing, may be termed intimate marketing. This category is.a matter of analytic perspective. Analyzed by a religious person, marriage is... ...onal scaling for statistically exploring virtually any number of attributes. This analytic technique makes it possible to simultaneously compare co... ...n the road to government-sponsored manpower programming. One branch continued the philosophy of the past, namely, that of maximizing the quantity of... ...cation of manpower needs. this approach addresses the problem with a more enduring philosophy. saying in effect. not "Let us employ the hard-to-empl... ...t on the "cold sores" of society and ignored the "cancers.” Few of the impressive analytical powers of market researchers have been applied to solv...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...bility to see the bigger picture (synoptic view), interpersonal aptitude, analytic and synthetic skills, not to mention numeracy, literacy, access t... ...nd demonstrate how they can equally be applied to organized labor. A. THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPETITION The aims of competition (anti-trust) laws are to... ...esters in the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western University, Ca... ...n: – Psychology ("Malignant Self Love") – An Open Directory Cool Site, – Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), – Economics and Geopolitics ("World ... ...n many countries. Many appearances in the electronic media on subjects in philosophy and the sciences, and concerning economic matters. Write to ... ...://ceeandbalkan.tripod.com/ Psychology: http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/ Philosophy: http://philosophos.tripod.com/ Poetry: http://samvak.tripod.com...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...s) is morally dubious. Anti-tax movements have sprung all over the world and their philosophy permeates the ideology of political parties in many c... ...proach. That the market is wiser than any of its participants is a pillar of the philosophy of capitalism. In its pure form, the theory claims th... ...a Spanish author and thinker, once wrote that it is impossible to design a coherent philosophy of economics not founded on our mortality. The Grim ... ...ess. The Open Source movement exposes the myths underlying current property rights philosophy and is thus subversive. But the inane expansion of in... ...ity, the ability to see the bigger picture (synoptic view), interpersonal aptitude, analytic and synthetic skills, not to mention numeracy, literacy... ...icians and is renowned (and notorious) for its prescriptive - some say meddlesome - philosophy and tactics. "The Economist" remarked sardonically: "...

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Scientia Magna : An International Journal : Volume 3, No. 2, 2007

By: Shaanxi Xi'an, Editor

...Scientia Magna is published annually in 200-300 pages per volume and 1,000 copies on topics such as mathematics, physics, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and linguistics....

...S. M. Khairnar and M. More : Subclass of analytic and univalent functions in the unit disk 1 Y. Ma, etc. : Large quaternary cyclic codes of length 85 and related quantum error-correcting 9 J. Chen : Value distribution of the F.Smarandache LCM function 15 M. Bencz...

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The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

By: Christopher Marlowe

... level at the end of every art, And live and die in Aristotle’s works. Sweet Analytics, ’tis thou hast ravish’d me! Bene disserere est finis logices. ... ...d For pleasant fruits and princely delicates; I’ll have them read me strange philosophy, And tell the secrets of all foreign kings; I’ll have them wal... ...hat your words have won me at the last To practice magic and concealed arts. Philosophy is odious and obscure; Both law and physic are for petty wits:...

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The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

...owever, is right in a graver reflection which he makes upon the prevailing philosophy of Swift, viz., that ‘all his views were directed towards what w... ... mons, for seeking refuge in a literal dinner from the oppres- sion of his philosophy. This was, perhaps, in part a scoff of his opponents. Yet there ... ...e read of his attempt to introduce the no- tion of negative greatness into Philosophy. Negative greatness! What strange bird may that be? Is it the or... ...rence is evidently to Kant’s essay upon the advantages of introducing into philosophy the algebraic idea of negative quantities. It is one of Kant’s g... ... satisfied was derived originally the German re- generation of the Dynamic philosophy, its expansion through the idea of polarity, indifference, &c. O... ...on, becomes obviously impos- sible, when it is perceived that the supposed analytic ele- ments of this synthesis are blank reiterations of each other....

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Walden, Or Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

... to human life that few, if any, whether from sav ageness, or poverty, or philosophy, ever attempt to do without it. To many creatures there is in th... ...ture, or commerce, or literature, or art. There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it... ...water. It was fit that I should live on rice, mainly, who love so well the philosophy of India. To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I... ...s was not indispensablenfor my discoveries were not by the syn thetic but analytic process and I have gladly omitted it since, though most housewive... ...g about the world in his own orbit, do ing it good, or rather, as a truer philosophy has dis covered, the world going about him getting good. When P... ...he necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history or philosophy, or poetry, no mat ter how well selected, or the best society, ...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume One

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...valuable as illustrating the great truth, too gener- ally overlooked, that analytic power is a subordinate quality of the critic. On the whole, it may... ...neral, and more especially my ignorance on subjects connected with natural philosophy, so far from rendering me diffident of my own ability to compre-... ... conjecture. —Sir Thomas Browne. THE MENTAL FEATURES discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appr... ...y had turned outward the faces of their own. 118 Poe in Five V olumes The analytical power should not be confounded with ample ingenuity; for while t... ...ted general observation among writers on morals. Between ingenuity and the analytic ability there exists a difference far greater, indeed, than that b... ...enious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. The narrative which follows will appear to the reader some- what ... ...ion. Observing him in these moods, I often dwelt meditatively upon the old philosophy of the Bi-Part Soul, and amused myself with the fancy of a doubl... ...o distend under the influence of the gas. “Having thus before us the whole philosophy of this subject, we can easily test by it the assertions of L ’E... ...to the bounds of apparent relevancy. Y et experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of tru...

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The Doctors Dilemma: Preface on Doctors

By: George Bernard Shaw

... doctor’s power of diagnosis was shown by the doctors themselves as to the analytic microbe hunt- ers. These witch finders would give you a certificat...

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The Ethics of Aristotle

By: J. A. Smith

...d the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the “philosophy of human affairs;” but more frequently Political or Social Scien... ...distinction is not that the one treats of Moral and the other of Political Philosophy, nor again that the one deals with the moral activity of the ind... ... 6 The Ethics of Aristotle the view of it as containing Aristotle’s Moral Philosophy. Nor is it important merely as summing up the moral judgments an... ...uct and speaking of it. Thus it still remains one of the classics of Moral Philosophy, nor is its value likely soon to be exhausted. As was pointed ou... ... prove its truth if he should ask. But these terms are employed elsewhere (Analytica Post I cap. 11. sect. 10) to denote respectively particulars and ... ...nihil enim impedio. P 6, l. 1. Or “prove themselves good,” as in the Prior Analytics, ii 25, [Greek: apanta pisteuomen k.t l] but the other rendering ... ...st upon Compassion. P. 133, l. 24. It is the opening statement of the Post Analytics. P . 133, l. 27. Aristotle in his logical analysis of Induction, ... ...cs. P . 133, l. 27. Aristotle in his logical analysis of Induction, Prior. Analytics II. 25, defines it to be “the proving the in- herence of the majo... ...l to compare on the subject of Induction as the term is used by Aristotle, Analytica Prior. II 25 26 Analytica Post. I. 1, 3, and I. Topics VI I and X...

...gle treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the ?philosophy of human affairs;? but more frequently Political or Social Science. In the two works taken together we have their author?s whole theory of human conduct or practical activity, that is, of all human activity which i...

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Paradoxist Distiches

By: Florentin Smarandache

...The whole paradoxist distich should be as a geometric unitary parabola, hyperbola, ellipse at the borders between art, philosophy, rebus, and mathematics – which exist in complementariness. The School of Paradoxist Literature, which evolved around 1980s, continues through these bi-verses closed in a new lyric exact formula, but with an openin...

...____ 34 SELF-CENSORSHIP __ 34 WHERE ____________ 35 BIG LIE ____________ 35 APPEARANCES _____ 35 EXCESS ____________ 35 DESPAIR ___________ 35 ANALYTIC _________ 35 BACOVIAN _________ 35 UNINVITED GUEST _ 35 NAUGHTY _________ 36 ESSENCE __________ 36 IN HARD TIMES ____ 36 HARDLY ___________ 36 CONTRADICTORY __ 36 PHYLOSOPHY ______ 36 PARSIFAL __________ 36 ...

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The Renaissance of Science : The Story of the Atom and Chemistry

By: Ph.D. Albert Martini

...us who we are! The writing of this book was guided by the gentle hand of our little and fascinating friend, the ATOM, through the exalting world of PHILOSOPHY (the love of learning) and of SCIENCE (the love of truth). In this fantastic journey, I had the privilege and pleasure of re-learning an old lesson of life, that man’s struggle to learn and to better himself and th...

...ur solar system as a mechanical universe. RENE DESCARTES (1596-1650) French Philosopher and Mathematician 53 Created his Cartesian Coordinates and Analytic Geometry. ROBERT BOYLE (1627-1691) Irish Physicist and Chemist 53 Proposed his corpuscular theory, revived Democritus’ theory. Published The Sceptical Chemist and initiated modern chemistry.   WILLIAM GILBERT ...

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The Analysis of Mind

By: Bertrand Russell

...iversity is an equal opportunity university. Contents MUIRHEAD LIBRARY OF PHILOSOPHY ................................................................... ... Russell The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell 1921 MUIRHEAD LIBRARY OF PHILOSOPHY An admirable statement of the aims of the Library of Phi- losoph... ... his description of the original programme printed in Erdmann’s History of Philosophy under the date 1890. This was slightly modified in subsequent vo... ...umes to take the form of the following statement: “The Muirhead Library of Philosophy was designed as a contribution to the History of Modern Philosop... ...secondly of different Sub- jects—Psychology, Ethics, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Theology. While much had been done in England in tracing the co... ...d, if I am not mistaken, incapable of maintaining itself either against an analytic scrutiny or against a host of facts in psycho-analysis and animal ... ... a wide field of “unconscious” phenomena which does not depend upon psycho-analytic theories. Such occurrences as automatic writing lead Dr. Morton Pr... ...urist, this must certainly count as knowledge, however it may be viewed by analytic psychology. In this case, what is known, roughly, is the stimulus;... ... except observation. I assume, that is to say, a trained observer, with an analytic attention, knowing the sort of thing to look for, and the sort of ...

...Excerpt: Muirhead Library Of Philosophy. An admirable statement of the aims of the Library of Philosophy was provided by the first editor, the late Professor J. H. Muirhead, in his description of the original programme printed in Erdmann?s History of Phi...

...Contents MUIRHEAD LIBRARY OF PHILOSOPHY .............................................................................................................. 4 PREFACE ................................................................................................

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Autobiography

By: John Stuart Mill

...with Logic, in which I began at once with the Organon, and read it to the Analytics inclusive, but profited little by the Poste rior Analytics, whic... ...e eighteenth century metaphysics, M. Gergonne, on logic, under the name of Philosophy of the Sciences. I also went through a course of the higher math... ...ollection of having once seen Saint Simon, not yet the founder either of a philosophy or a religion, and considered only as a clever original. The chi... ...ty to my conceptions of things. I now had opinions; a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy; in one among the best senses of the word, a religion; the incul... ...my father’s direction, my studies were carried into the higher branches of analytic psychology. I now read Locke’s Essay, and wrote out an ac count ... ...my father made me study what he deemed the really master production in the philosophy of mind, Hartley’s Observations on Man . This book, though it d... ...an the one I ultimately executed. Having done with Logic, we launched into Analytic Psy chology, and having chosen Hartley for our text book, we 71 ... ...oined together in Nature, to cohere more and more closely in our thoughts. Analytic habits may thus even strengthen the associations between causes an... ...he formation of my character anew, and create, in a mind now irretrievably analytic, fresh associations of plea sure with any of the objects of human...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Four

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...‘Confessions of an Opium-eater’—fine, very fine!—glorious imagination—deep philosophy acute specula- tion—plenty of fire and fury, and a good spicing ... ...r. Is it not truly remarkable that, before the magnificent light shed upon philosophy by Humanity, the world was accustomed to regard War and Pes- til... ...OST NOTORIOUS ill-fortune must in the end yield to the untiring courage of philosophy—as the most stubborn city to the ceaseless vigilance of an enemy... ... might even have a tangible form. Most philoso- phers, upon many points of philosophy, are still very unphilosophical. William Godwin, however, says i... ...uch new light might be thrown upon a highly interesting branch of physical philosophy. To all this I am sorry that I cannot reply. A hint is the only ... ...ented to his inspection—he could have no difficulty in determining, by the analytic retrogradation, to what original impulse it was due. This power of...

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Getting Married and Preface to Getting Married

By: George Bernard Shaw

...le, and that even the most experi- enced people have not always sufficient analytic faculty to dis- entangle it from the sentiments, sympathetic or ab...

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