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My task, let me say now, is practically narrow, and my words are to deal only with that metaphysical tedium vitae [life weariness] which is peculiar to reflecting men. Most of you are devoted, for good or ill, to the reflective life. ... But to the diseases which reflection breeds, still further reflection can oppose effective remedies; and it is of the melancholy and Weltschmerz [...] ... (pp. 40-41)
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Life is always worth living, if one have (sic) such responsive sensibilities. But we of the highly educated classes (so called) have most of us got far, far away from Nature. We are trained to seek the choice, the rare, the exquisite exclusively, and to overlook the common. We are stuffed with abstract conceptions, and glib with verbalities and verbosities; ... (p.22)
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Now the blindness in human beings, of which this discourse will treat, is the blindness with which we all are afflicted in regard to the feelings of creatures and people different from ourselves.
We are practical beings, each of us with limited functions and duties to perform. Each is bound to feel intensely the importance of his own duties and the significance of the situations that call these forth. ... (p.1)
— Sep 03, 2014 06:17AM
We are practical beings, each of us with limited functions and duties to perform. Each is bound to feel intensely the importance of his own duties and the significance of the situations that call these forth. ... (p.1)
