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Page 60
... soul's wounds , must learn to say , " I have been a battered woman , " and to thereby properly identify her previous condition . Only after she has named what is can she begin to name what may be . Victorian sensibilities delighted in ...
... soul's wounds , must learn to say , " I have been a battered woman , " and to thereby properly identify her previous condition . Only after she has named what is can she begin to name what may be . Victorian sensibilities delighted in ...
Page 66
... soul feels empty there . After the sleep of ice , the buffalo hunt , the big plow , and the house on the plains , we walk around our yards , survey our fences . The soul comforts itself with work , with business , with crop production ...
... soul feels empty there . After the sleep of ice , the buffalo hunt , the big plow , and the house on the plains , we walk around our yards , survey our fences . The soul comforts itself with work , with business , with crop production ...
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... soul , teach us to admire . We have conquered in our turn ... our reason has swept everything away . Alone at last , we build our empire upon a desert . How then could we conceive that higher balance in which nature balanced history ...
... soul , teach us to admire . We have conquered in our turn ... our reason has swept everything away . Alone at last , we build our empire upon a desert . How then could we conceive that higher balance in which nature balanced history ...
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The Necessity to Speak | 3 |
Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
The Degradation of Money | 27 |
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