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Monday, October 28, 2024

Grief Not Cured

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Abraham Cowley, Constantia and Philetus , ll. 317-8:           Hee who acquainteth others with his moane,           Addes to his friend'...
Sunday, October 27, 2024

Nought But Death

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Abraham Cowley, Constantia and Philetus (written around 1630, when Cowley was only twelve years old), ll. 445-476:          I t rust (deare ...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

The Process Of Projection

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Carl G. Jung, The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche , tr. R. F. C. Hull (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2 nd edt., 1969 = Bollin...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Being Transported

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Roger Scruton, Why Beauty Matters , 2009: Ornaments liberate us from the tyranny of the useful, and satisfy our need for harmony; in a stran...
Monday, October 21, 2024

Silence, Solitude, Grief, Love, & Thought

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Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Journal Intime , from August 28, 1875 (tr. Mrs. Humphrey Ward): I know that the world, which is only eager to silence ...
Saturday, October 19, 2024

That Nothing Is Forgotten; On Our Thoughts; On One's Journal; & On Virtues & Vices

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Henry David Thoreau, Journal , entires taken from 1841, Feb. 8: All we have experienced is so much gone within us, and there lies. It is the...
Sunday, October 13, 2024

Goethe On Johann von Zimmermann

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Autobiography of Goethe. Truth and Poetry: From my Own Life , tr. John Oxenford, bks. I-XX (London: George B...
Friday, October 11, 2024

On Solitude; Isolating Oneself From Mankind; True Content; Egoism; Truly Great And Healthy Men; Morbidness & Human Weakness; Misanthropy; & Society

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William Rounseville Alger, The Solitudes of Nature and of Man; or, The Loneliness of Human Life  (Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1867), 122-24, 1...
Sunday, October 6, 2024

The Certainty Of Being Alone

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Hippolyte Taine, A Tour Through the Pyrenees , tr. J. Safford Fiske (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1875), 149-51: This valley is solitar...
Friday, October 4, 2024

Life's Endless Toil

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day is Done (composed in 1844, and pub. in 1845 as an intro. to a compiled volume of lyrics Longfellow himse...
Friday, September 13, 2024

No Letter

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Aphra Behn (1640-1689), The   Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister , pt. I., 1st letter to Sylvia:                          I have...
Saturday, August 3, 2024

Weariness

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Weariness :   Mine  eyes are weary of surveying The fairest things, too soon decaying; Mine ears are weary of re...
Sunday, July 28, 2024

The Dark Of Night

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Anna Wertz, “The Genesis of Hans Blumenberg’s Legitimacy of the Modern Age ” (Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, Spring...
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Saturday, July 13, 2024

That The Modern World Is Both Christian And Un-Christian

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Karl Löwith, Meaning In History: Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press...
Sunday, July 7, 2024

Tocqueville On The Indians, The Americans, & The Virtues & Vices Of The Latter

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Alexis de Tocqueville, “A Fortnight in the Wilderness, 1831,” in  Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville , the translator unn...
Monday, July 1, 2024

Haeckel, Darwin, And The Idiot-Physiognomy

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Wilhelm Bölsche, Haeckel: His Life and Work , tr. Joseph McCabe (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906), 146-7: Darwin was never a handsome man fro...
Monday, June 24, 2024

‘‘Progress,’’ Hopelessness, France, And Flaubert

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Karl Löwith, Meaning In History: Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press,...
Sunday, June 9, 2024

The Dark Ages?

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Auguste Comte, The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte , tr. Harriet Martineau (London: George Bell and Sons, 1896), vol. III., 123: We sha...
Saturday, June 1, 2024

Full Of Divinity

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, The System of Economic Contradictions; or, The Philosophy of Poverty , tr. Benjamin R. Tucker (1888), vol. I., Intro...
Monday, May 27, 2024

God's Closet: Solitude

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William Rounseville Alger, The Solitudes of Nature and of Man; or, The Loneliness of Human Life (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1867), 146-148: T...
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