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Reperusals and Re-Collections
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There is something reassuring, too (at least, I find it so), in these renewals of former admirations. We all endeavour, as Spinoza says, to persist in our own being and that endeavour is, he adds, the very essence of our existence. When, therefore, we find that what delighted us once can still delight that though the objects of our admiration may be intermittent, yet they move in fixed orbits, and their return is certain, these reappearances will suggest that we have after all maintained something of our own integrity that a sort of system lies beneath the apparent variability of our interests that there is, so to speak, a continuity within ourselves, a core of mean ing which has not disintegrated with the years.
There is something reassuring, too (at least, I find it so), in these renewals of former admirations. We all endeavour, as Spinoza says, to persist in our own being and that endeavour is, he adds, the very essence of our existence. When, therefore, we find that what delighted us once can still delight that though the objects of our admiration may be intermittent, yet they move in fixed orbits, and their return is certain, these reappearances will suggest that we have after all maintained something of our own integrity that a sort of system lies beneath the apparent variability of our interests that there is, so to speak, a continuity within ourselves, a core of mean ing which has not disintegrated with the years.
387 pages, Paperback
Published August 24, 2018
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Logan Pearsall Smith
48 books33 followersLogan Pearsall Smith was an American-born essayist and critic, and a notable writer on historical semantics.
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