The Intellectual Life
Excerpt: ...a moral snare or pitfall, from which the best and noblest would be least likely to escape. It is hard to believe that the strong passions which so often accompany high intellectual gifts were intended either to drive their possessors into immorality or else to the misery of ill-assorted unions. No, there is such a thing as the intellectual marriage, in which the intellect itself is married. If such marriages are not frequent, it is that they are not often made the deliberate purpose of a wise alliance. Men choose their wives because they are pretty, or because they are rich, or because they are well-connected, but rarely for the p…
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- ISBN: 978-1-153-64891-2
- EAN: 9781153648912
- Produktnummer: 14787748
- Verlag: Books LLC, Reference Series
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 136 S.
- Masse: H24.6 cm x B18.9 cm x D1.0 cm 279 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 279
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