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... human beings is their response to the deep- rooted passions , above all sexual love . Intellectually , Hardy was very much an advanced man of his time . That he was a pessimist seems to me to need no proof . But reading his work one can ...
... human beings is their response to the deep- rooted passions , above all sexual love . Intellectually , Hardy was very much an advanced man of his time . That he was a pessimist seems to me to need no proof . But reading his work one can ...
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... human behaviour in its more abiding aspects . It was not an easy or harmonious marriage , but its tensions were part of its strength . Without the philosophical interpretation of what he saw and felt his work might have approximated in ...
... human behaviour in its more abiding aspects . It was not an easy or harmonious marriage , but its tensions were part of its strength . Without the philosophical interpretation of what he saw and felt his work might have approximated in ...
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... human nature may not change , men's notions of their nature do , and one such change occurred roughly during the first decade of the twentieth century . Professor Isaacs has pointed out , in his An Assessment of Twentieth - Century ...
... human nature may not change , men's notions of their nature do , and one such change occurred roughly during the first decade of the twentieth century . Professor Isaacs has pointed out , in his An Assessment of Twentieth - Century ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 50 |
Copyright | |
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