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Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The World of Perception
The World of Perception ‘This is that rare genre, the careful popularisation, done by the original author. In simple prose Merleau-Ponty touches on his principal themes. He speaks about the body and the world, the coexistence of space and things, the unfortunate optimism of science – and also the insidious stickiness of honey, and the mystery of anger. These lectures are slight but not ...
The cloud of unknowing, and other treatises - Internet Archive
The author of the Cloud was, as has been said already, a diligent student of that un¬ known writer who chose to issue his profound treatises under the style of “ Dionysius the Areopagite ”; Denis is his mystical teacher.
religious6 - freepoemsonline.net
He never held office. He never had a family or owned a house. He didn't go to college. He had no credentials but himself. He was only thirty-three when the public turned against him. Nineteen centuries have come and gone, and today he is the central figure of the human race. All the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever sailed, all the parliaments that ever sat, and all the kings ...
Beautifully written - author unknown - The Post & Email
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the sun never set on the British empire; now Albion exists in perpetual twilight. Its 96-year-old sovereign is a fitting symbol for a nation in terminal decline.
Guide to referencing using the Harvard system
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WHO IS THE BARBARIAN? - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In an 1899 cartoon, René Georges Hermann-Paul attacked the hypocrisy of spreading civilization by force by juxtaposing the words “Barbarie” and “Civilisation” beneath Chinese and French combatants who alternate as victor and victim. When the Chinese man raises his sword, it is labeled “barbarism,” but when the French soldier does precisely the same thing it is “a necessary blow ...
The Cloud of Unknowing - Christian Classics Ethereal Library
The attempt to identify this mysterious writer with Walter Hilton, the author of The Scale of Perfection, has completely failed: though Hilton’s work—especially the exquisite fragment called the Song of Angels—certainly betrays his influence.
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