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The Centaur
The story revolves around Terence O'Malley, a complex and contemplative man grappling with his place in a modern world that he finds stifling and disconnected from nature.
"The Centaur" by Algernon Blackwood is a novel. The story revolves around Terence O'Malley, a complex and contemplative man grappling with his place in a modern world that he finds stifling and disconnected from nature.
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"We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all."
"… A man's vision is the great fact about him. Who cares for Carlyle's reasons, or Schopenhauer's, or Spencer's? A philosophy is the expression of a man's intimate character, and all definitions of the Universe are but the deliberately adopted reactions of human characters upon it."
"There are certain persons who, independently of sex or comeliness, arouse an instant curiosity concerning themselves. The tribe is small, but its members unmistakable. They may possess neither fortune, good looks, nor that adroitness of advance-vision which the stupid name good luck; yet there is about them this inciting quality which proclaims that they have overtaken Fate, set a harness about its neck of violence, and hold bit and bridle in steady hands.
Contents
- 01I
- 02II
- 03—Whitman
- 04III
- 05—Thoreau
- 06IV
- 07—Henri Bergson
- 08V
- 09VI
- 10VII
- 11VIII
- 12IX
- 13X
- 14—Old Saying
- 15XI
- 16XII
- 17XIII
- 18XIV
- 19XV
- 20XVI
- 21XVII
- 22XVIII
- 23XIX
- 24—Josiah Royce
- 25XX
- 26XXI
- 27XXII
- 28XXIII
- 29XXIV
- 30XXV
- 31XXVI
- 32XXVII
- 33XXVIII
- 34XXIX
- 35XXX
- 36—Emerson
- 37XXXI
- 38XXXII
- 39XXXIII
- 40—E.b. Browning
- 41XXXIV
- 42XXXV
- 43XXXVI
- 44—W.e. Henley
- 45XXXVII
- 46—Richard Jefferies
- 47XXXVIII
- 48XXXIX
- 49XL
- 50XLI
- 51XLII
- 52XLIII
- 53XLIV
- 54XLV
- 55XLVI
About this edition
- Author
- Algernon Blackwood
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 304 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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