A Study of Pleasure and PainTheosophical Press, 1962 - 97 من الصفحات The theme of this book is that pain is functional in the advancement and enrichment of life in nature and in man, therefore it should be received with understanding and consideration. The arguments found within are purely scientific and illustrated by examples in the lives of common people. Fully discussed are the topics of how pain arises and ceases and the different kinds of pain. |
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... picture the cave man and primitive man . Comparing that man with present man we see that what he has and what he is are vastly greater than what he had and what he was . We see also that every bit of that great- ness was won by his own ...
... picture the cave man and primitive man . Comparing that man with present man we see that what he has and what he is are vastly greater than what he had and what he was . We see also that every bit of that great- ness was won by his own ...
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... picture of a motorcar accident you had there twenty years ago . In the dream or drift of daydreaming one idea or picture succeeds another not haphazardly but because of a mental rela- tionship of one kind or another ( what I have 43.
... picture of a motorcar accident you had there twenty years ago . In the dream or drift of daydreaming one idea or picture succeeds another not haphazardly but because of a mental rela- tionship of one kind or another ( what I have 43.
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... picture . Was it not the great Goethe who , when asked to name the most prevalent and most consuming human desire , replied , " To be wanted " ? I have no doubt that the complexes of desires enjoyed and suffered by birds and squirrels ...
... picture . Was it not the great Goethe who , when asked to name the most prevalent and most consuming human desire , replied , " To be wanted " ? I have no doubt that the complexes of desires enjoyed and suffered by birds and squirrels ...
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