Word: life
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...attacks of the clergy did not cease with "Le Tartuffe," nor after the death of Moliere, who all through his life continued the struggle in the conviction that he was the leader of the new forces and was supported by the court. The spirit of "Le Tartuffe" harmonized with the great festivities of the year 1664, when Moliere was at the apogee of his career as grand master of ceremonies...
...incompatible aspects of the question. First there are those people who do not think about immortality, then those who fear it, and finally those who desire it. The majority of people are of the first class; they accept death as inevitable and seldom or never think about a future life, not even on their death-beds. There are some people who have simply had enough of life and desire only to rest in oblivion, and others who desire extinction because they have found this life unjust and cruel, and fear that the future one is no better. Again there...
...might be desirable to repeat life without memory of past existences. This was Nietzsche's doctrine. The early Christian conception of immortality fills one with something like horror. Universal extinction is better than this...
...impossible to picture the kind of life with which we would be perfectly satisfied. By Heaven we mean that ultimate end of human endeavor which we hope to be good; it lies beyond death; it is that elusive ideal of which we are forever in quest. Another great question is whether the soul is conscious in after life of its former existence...
...graduate of King's College. Besides holding the positions of Fellow and lecturer in that college, he is lecturer in the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has published a number of important articles, among which are "Revolution and Reaction in Modern France," "The Greek View of Life," "The Meaning of Good," and "Religion: a Criticism and Forecast...