The book History of a Literary Radical And Other Essays was written by author Randolph Silliman Bourne Here you can read free online of History of a Literary Radical And Other Essays book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is History of a Literary Radical And Other Essays a good or bad book?
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In the light of the will-to-power dogma this superstition fades. The puritan becomes just as much of a naturalistic phenomenon as the most carnal sinner. Instincts and impulses, in the puritan, are not miraculously cancelled, but have their full play. The primitive currents of life are not blocked and turned back on their sources, but turned into powerful and usually devastating channels. The puritan is just as much of a "natural" man as you or I. But we still have to explain how this lustful, ...headstrong creature called man, spilling with greed, could so unabatedly throughout the ages give up the primitive satisfaction of sex and food and drink and gregariousness and act the ascetic and the glumly censorious. How could an animal whose business was to feel powerful get power from being in subjection and deprivation? Well, the puritan gets his sense of power from a very cunningly organized satisfaction of two of his strongest impulses, the self-conscious personal impulses of being regarded and being neglected.
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