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...measure of charity toward one's fellow man. The collection is arranged to show the development of Muggeridge's attitudes over time, and if it establishes that his religious beliefs are longstanding ones, it also shows that the author's store of hope for this imperfect world was exhausted by his disillusionment in Moscow...
...others. Keats enjoyed an occasional draft of opium, and, Dr. Ober points out, his imagery can be pharmacologically explicit ("My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains . ."). Restoration Poet John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, enshrined his premature ejaculations in The Imperfect Enjoyment. The disorder, Ober suggests may have been caused by confusion and guilt: the earl was bisexual...
Despite his experience with the tumultuous politics of inter-war Europe, Deutsch says he never was tempted to withdraw from politics or to resign himself to cynicism. "I find the world a highly imperfect place in which to live, but you can always make it a little more perfect...
Handlin, however, said he opposes divestiture because he believes the mission of the University "is not to perfect an imperfect world, but to pursue and advance learning...
...LOEB PRODUCTION of Candide may not be the best of all possible Candides, but it is very good and in this imperfect world, that is usually enough...