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Page 185
... rhythm and ultimately to all beauty , as in music and poetry . The rhythms of a dance or the contours of a vase seem to be made of essentially the same basic stuff as are the rhythms of life which are evident in our deepest ...
... rhythm and ultimately to all beauty , as in music and poetry . The rhythms of a dance or the contours of a vase seem to be made of essentially the same basic stuff as are the rhythms of life which are evident in our deepest ...
Page 186
... rhythms and individuality in rhythms ; both are selectively responsive to outer rhythms . The human nervous system possesses , then , curious and pro- found hungers for many objects which are neither meat nor drink , neither satisfiers ...
... rhythms and individuality in rhythms ; both are selectively responsive to outer rhythms . The human nervous system possesses , then , curious and pro- found hungers for many objects which are neither meat nor drink , neither satisfiers ...
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... rhythms , countless forms of energy modulations , existing at large in the environment , some of which are benign , some destructive . We are like little fortresses which by their own internal rhythm pre- vent disruption by outer rhythms ...
... rhythms , countless forms of energy modulations , existing at large in the environment , some of which are benign , some destructive . We are like little fortresses which by their own internal rhythm pre- vent disruption by outer rhythms ...
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Our Twentiethcentury Vantage Point | 3 |
The Invention of Culture | 47 |
How We Come to Want What We Want | 60 |
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