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The Function of Reason
By Alfred North Whitehead. “The function of reason is to promote the art of life.”
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The Obscurantists
New at IWP Books: Alfred North Whitehead, 1929, The Function of Reason "The dawn of brilliant epochs is shadowed by the massive obscurantism of human nature. Obscurantism is the inertial resistance of the practical Reason, with its millions of years behind it, to the interference with…Read the post →
To Learn to Live
When all the fiercer passions cease (The glory and disgrace of youth); When the deluded soul, in peace, Can listen to the voice of truth;…
→By Slight Temptation
So much he’s seen of baseness in the mind, That, while a friend to man, he scorns mankind; He knows the human heart, and sees…
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