If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight... Roosevelt, the Happy Warrior - Page 134by Bradley Gilman - 1921 - 376 pagesFull view - About this book
| Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - 1896 - 388 pages
...sweat and blood and tragedy of this life mean, if they mean anything short of this. If this life be not a real fight in which something is eternally gained...it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight ; as if there were something really... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne - 1896 - 802 pages
...sweat and blood and tragedy of this life mean, if they mean anything short of this. If this life be not a real fight in which something is eternally gained...it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight ; as if there were something really... | |
| William James - 1896 - 364 pages
...sweat and blood and tragedy of this life mean, if they mean anything short of this. If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally...it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real, figjat,.;— as if there were something... | |
| William James - 1896 - 374 pages
...sweat and blood and tragedy of this life mean, if they mean anything short of this. If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally...it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight, — as if there were something... | |
| John Stuart Mackenzie - 1897 - 484 pages
...In a stirring article entitled "Is Life worth Living?" Professor James remarks — "If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally...it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight ; " and he concludes by urging... | |
| Volney Streamer - 1897 - 248 pages
...sweat and blood and tragedy of this life mean, if they mean anything short of this. If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally...it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight—as if there were something really... | |
| Horatio Willis Dresser - 1899 - 240 pages
...hypothesis. Only in such a world can moral judgments have a claim to be." And again': " If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally...it is no better than a game of private theatricals, from which one may withdraw at will." " A world with a chance in it of being altogether good, even... | |
| 1899 - 848 pages
...hypothesis. Only in such a world can moral judgments have a claim to be." And again : f "If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no • " The Will to B«lieTe," p. 292. ' Ibid, p. 61. better than a game of private theatricals, from... | |
| 1917 - 714 pages
...One need only recall the well-known close of the essay ' Is Life worth Living ? ' : 'If this life be not a real fight in which something is eternally gained...it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight — as if there were something... | |
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