Reflections--"Thoughts", 1917

File — Box: 37-40, Volume: 8

Identifier: VII

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Scope and Contents

"Of course our characters are a sum total of what we think and do." (page 4)
"Life is a struggle for existance. Many cannot look ahead with any very rational hope of things being much better." (page 7)
"I had begun this book with object of writing what I felt like writing and when I felt like it." (page 19)
"Man has always had a brain and a mind, but just what it is where it came from and its purpose he had spent little time trying to find out." (page 39)
"The things and forces of earth are complex. Life is complex, but for the first time, so far as we know we have reached the stage where the mind can almost conquer." (page 41)
"Does something of a man's peculiar thought and personality remain after he is gone? It does in the minds of others." (page 101)
"So many many books now yet so comparatively little in them." (page 118)

Dates

1917

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection materials are in English.

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