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Title: Cobwebs of Thought
Author: Arachne
Release Date: October 16, 2004 [eBook #13766]
Language: English
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COBWEBS OF THOUGHT
by
"ARACHNE"
London



CONTENTS.

CHAPTER
I. OUR IGNORANCE OF OURSELVES
II. CONTRASTS
III. MAETERLINCK ON HAMLET
IV. AN IMPOSSIBLE PHILOSOPHY
V. IMPRESSIONS OF GEORGE SAND


MOTTO.

"The first philosophers, whether Chaldeans or Egyptians, said there
must be something within us which produces our thought. That something
must be very subtle: it is breath; it is fire, it is ether; it is a
quintessence; it is a slender likeness; it is an intelechia; it is a
number; it is harmony; lastly, according to the divine Plato, it is a
compound of the _same_ and the _other_! It is atoms which think in us,
said Epicurus after Democritus.
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