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A Last Laugh?… Stuart France

* The New European, in need of a costume rifles through the storehouse of history but finds none that quite fit… * We may consider the twenty-first century (common age) with regard to these wayward predilections of style… * In … Continue reading

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Formulas of Virtue… Stuart France

* We have become well versed in the love of enemies… That’s the long and the short of it! * Silent and graceful, we move, as automata, in a pit of vipers… * Continue reading at Stuart France

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Hare-Skin in Moon-Face… Stuart France

* Sister-Sun and Sister-Moon walked side by side in the sky… Both were cold. * One day they caught a hare, skinned it, and put it in a cooking-pot to stew… * While the hare was stewing The two sisters … Continue reading

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Blue Lotus – Stuart France

* I set out in search of the Now, Not the Where or the Why nor even the How. I set out in search of the Now… * Reblogged from Stuart France

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Future Man… Stuart France

* The Philosopher as ‘man of the future’ is always at odds with the past. But his real adversary is the present ideal… He cannot count himself a friend of current knowledge but rather assumes the garb of ‘cantankerous fool’, … Continue reading

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The Mirror Man… Stuart France

* If it were possible to achieve objectivity for a space… We could reflect on what it might mean for man. Yet, even the most spotless surface, would only hold its image reversed. And since we have now out grown … Continue reading

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Game of Bones… Stuart France

* With what gusto the horizons of our world expand. Our enthusiasm grasps at each new enigma like a child its toy. Perhaps one day the most solemn problems of the past will appear as mere playthings to us… Continue … Continue reading

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Distance….Stuart France

* If we want a yardstick, for how far we have travelled from our Gods… We need only consider the once widespread custom of sacrificing a first-born child… It hardly seems credible from this vantage, irrespective of its counter productivity … Continue reading

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Of Sophists and Soporifics… Stuart France

* With the advent of the Peripatetic Philosophers and their schools, where students could learn to aspire, to all that is good in life, and the roaring success of these ventures, came, inevitably, another sort of instruction, one based solely … Continue reading

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Bestings … Stuart France

* There is no better than… Just be the best you can. …Jack… Source: Stuart France

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