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Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Writing And Style

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Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life (The Riverside Press Cambridge, 12th imp., December 1924), ch. IV., The Art of Writing, pp. 188-190: No do...
Monday, May 29, 2023

Suffering As A Completion

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Georg Simmel, The View of Life (Lebensanschauung): Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms , tr. A. Y. Andrews (University of Chicag...
Sunday, May 28, 2023

Friends Of A Few Fortunate Readers: Forgotten Authors

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James Howell (c. 1594—1666), Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ , with an Introduction by Agnes Repplier, vol. I. (Boston and New York, 1907) Introduction, ...

Cowper's Serene Demise

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The Life and Works of William Cowper , edt. Rev. T. S. Grimshawe (London, 1849), pp. 447 & 448: From this mournful period, till the feat...
Saturday, May 27, 2023

Utilitarian Versus Humanist, And Pessimism

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Frederick C. Beiser, Philosophy of Life: German Lebensphilosophie 1870-1920 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), Ch. III., The Battle Ag...
Friday, May 26, 2023

Things That Characterise The Philosopher

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals , 3rd Essay, sect. 8 (Horace B. Samuel): But a spirit who is sure of himself speaks softly; he seek...
Friday, May 19, 2023

The Love Of The Country And Of Nature

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William Hazlitt, Letures on the English Poets and the English Comic Writers (London: Geroge Bell and Sons, 1884), Lectures on the English Po...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Rarity's Charm

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Martial or Marcus Valerius Martialis,  The Epigrams of Martial translated into English Prose (London: George Bell and Sons, 1904), bk. IV., ...
Saturday, May 13, 2023

Retrieving The Divine

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Friedrich Hebbel, Diari (Tagebücher) , edt. Lorenza Rega, 2009, Diario 1,   23 March, 1835, p. 39 (personal translation from the Italian):  ...
Thursday, May 11, 2023

Naturalness, Modesty, And Love

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Havelovk Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex , vol. I., 3rd edt., 1928, The Evolution of Modesty, IV., pp. 83-2: Dugas goes further, and...
Wednesday, May 3, 2023

The Idly Read

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James Hurnard, Arthur and Helen (found in: James Hurnard: A Memoir, Chiefly Autobiographical, with Selections from his Poems , edt. Louisa B...

The Earthy And The Coarse

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments (Spring 1885-Spring 1886), tr. Adrian Del Caro (Stanford University Press, 2020), §26 [405], p. ...
Monday, May 1, 2023

Between Miserable Egotism And Love

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Friedrich Schiller, Philosophical Letters , letter IV., Theosophy of Julius, Love and Sacrifice sections (unknown translator. George Bell an...

The 1st Of Ruskin's Childhood's Calamities

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John Ruskin, Præterita , ch. II.: First, that I had nothing to love.  My parents were—in a sort—visible powers of nature to me, no more love...
Sunday, April 30, 2023

The General Journey Of The Philosopher Without Affectation

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Émile Faguet, On Reading Nietzsche , tr. George Raaffalovich (New York, 1918), ch. I., Nietzsche Seeks Himself, pp. 1-2: Often, if not alway...

Sweet Pains

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Henri Bremond,  A Literary History of Religious Thought in France: From the Wars of Religion down to our Times , tr. K. L. Montgomery (Macmi...

Education And Killing Originality

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Émile Faguet,  The Cult of Incopmetence , tr. Beatrice Barstow (New York, 1914), ch. XI., Attempted Remedies, pp. 185-187: The precocious de...
Saturday, April 29, 2023

Rerum Fragor

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Gur Zak, Petrarch's Humanism and the Care of the Self  (Cambridge, 2010), Intro., pp. 1-4: . . . here was the palace of Evander, there t...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

How Things Get Spoiled: Vermoralisierung

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals , 2nd essay, §7 (tr. Horace B. Samuel): . . . it should be shown specifically that, at the time whe...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Philosophy: A Rare Plant

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Wille zur Macht , §420 (tr. A. M. Ludovici): I do not wish to convert anybody to philosophy: it is both necessary and p...