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...lassics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...destruction, besieging relatives. He said it with the resonant emphasis of death to younger sons. For if the oak is to be- come a stately tree, we mus... ...t marvel that a conservative sex should assist to keep them in their lofty places. What were there otherwise to look up to? We should have no dazzling... ...country gentle- man; he had abandoned London, he loathed it as the burial- place of the individual man. He intended to sit down on his estates and hav... ...und headpiece on those tyrannous puzzles. But the habits of birds, and the place for their eggs, and the management of rabbits, and the tickling of fi... ...son spoke of the loss she would be to him; he spoke of the dreadfulness of death. He alluded to his own death to come carelessly, with a philosophical... ... believe I am a good nurse.” “It is this belief—that one does not die with death!” “That is our comfort.” “When we love?” “Does it not promise that we...

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Excerpt: The Ethics. Part III -- On the Origin and Nature of the Emotions by Benedict de Spinoza, translated by R.H.M. Elwes.

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...IN AND AND AND AND AND N N N N N A A A A ATURE TURE TURE TURE TURE OF OF OF OF OF THE THE THE THE THE E E E E E MO MO MO MO MOTIONS TIONS ... ...ATION TION TION TION TION The Ethics: Part III – On the Origin and Nature of the Emotions by Benedict de Spinoza, trans. R.H.M. Elwes is a publicatio... ... the Emotions by Benedict de Spinoza, trans. R.H.M. Elwes is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ... of the acuteness of his own great intellect, as I will show in the proper place. For the present I wish to revert to those, who would rather abuse or... ...s effect cannot be understood. II. I say that we ‘act’ when anything takes place, either within us or externally to us, whereof we are the adequate ca... ...is (by the foregoing definition) when through our nature some- thing takes place within us or externally to us, which can through our nature alone be ... ... therefore, feel pain if one of the afore- said attendant circumstances be missing. Proof—For, in so far as he finds some circumstance to be missing, ... ...mstance (by the last Prop.), he will, in so far as he con- ceives it to be missing, feel pain (III. xix.). Q.E.D. This pain, in so far as it has refer... ...would not. For though an avaricious man should, for the sake of avoid- ing death, cast his riches into the sea, he will none the less remain avariciou...