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Principles of Freedom

CHAPTER VII
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But he has had awakened within him something which the mere logician can never deduce, and that mysterious something is the explanation of his transformed life.

He was a doubter, a falterer, a failure; he has become a believer, a fighter, a conqueror.
You miss his significance completely when you take him for a theorist.
The theorist propounds a view to which he must convert the world; the philosopher has a rule of life to immediately put into practice.

His spirit flashes with a swiftness that can be encircled by no theory.

It is his glory to have over and above a new penetrating argument in the mind--a new and wonderful vitality in the blood.

The unbeliever, near by, still muddled by his cold theories, will argue and debate till his intellect is in a tangle.


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