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... human affairs , and whose func- tion it is to produce evil . There is nothing more striking about Luther than the amazing sincerity of his belief in the existence of such an evil being , the great general enemy of mankind , and whose ...
... human affairs , and whose func- tion it is to produce evil . There is nothing more striking about Luther than the amazing sincerity of his belief in the existence of such an evil being , the great general enemy of mankind , and whose ...
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... human affairs . Still , neither the fact , on the one hand , that Milton did believe in the existence of the Evil Spirit , nor the fact , on the other , that Mephistopheles is an expression for the aggregate of much profound thinking on ...
... human affairs . Still , neither the fact , on the one hand , that Milton did believe in the existence of the Evil Spirit , nor the fact , on the other , that Mephistopheles is an expression for the aggregate of much profound thinking on ...
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... human mind to conceive twenty - four great supernatural beings existing together at any given moment in space ; but it is utterly impossible to con- ceive what would occur among those twenty - four beings during twenty - four hours ...
... human mind to conceive twenty - four great supernatural beings existing together at any given moment in space ; but it is utterly impossible to con- ceive what would occur among those twenty - four beings during twenty - four hours ...
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... be done in an audience - hall , and the human mind refuses to go beyond certain limits in its conception of what an audience - hall is . Again the gate of Hell is described , although the Hell of LUTHER'S , MILTON'S , AND GOETHE'S . 11.
... be done in an audience - hall , and the human mind refuses to go beyond certain limits in its conception of what an audience - hall is . Again the gate of Hell is described , although the Hell of LUTHER'S , MILTON'S , AND GOETHE'S . 11.
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... human condition of being and the angelic one he is describing is the law of gravitation . We , and all that is cognisable by us , are subject to this law ; but Creation may be peopled with beings who are not subject to it , and to us ...
... human condition of being and the angelic one he is describing is the law of gravitation . We , and all that is cognisable by us , are subject to this law ; but Creation may be peopled with beings who are not subject to it , and to us ...
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