Alias Uncle Shylock: A Tragi-Comedy of the Two Dromios, Fear and Avarice (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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More than once of late (three times in particular the same being today, yesterday, and the day before) he has told me that the surface of life appears to be growing unreasonable, not to say topsy-turvy. Be fore this reaches him, no doubt the surface will change again. For the surface of life (which means today any day) will always look unreasonable so long as false philosophers teach a man to Shun the deep, which is to say yesterday. Yesterday is always deeper than today. The precise news of the moment, there fore, is not absolutely essential. To explain the principle of topsy-turvy is the undertaking of the present philosopher; and if, by the time these words meet your eye, Germany Shall have finished the de struction of the Treaty of Versailles and won the war, even that surprise will be found, in principle, to be nothing new - j ust newly entertaining.

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