Nights with the Gods

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Emil Reich. Nights with the Gods

Nights with the Gods, by Emil Reich

FOREWORD

THE FIRST NIGHT – ARISTOTLE ON SPECIALISM IN ENGLAND

THE SECOND NIGHT – DIOGENES AND PLATO ON TOLSTOY, IBSEN, SHAW, ETC

THE THIRD NIGHT – ALCIBIADES ON WOMEN IN ENGLAND

FOURTH NIGHT – ALCIBIADES—CONTINUED

THE FIFTH NIGHT – CÆSAR ON THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

THE SIXTH NIGHT – APOLLO AND DIONYSUS IN ENGLAND

THE SEVENTH NIGHT – SOCRATES, DIOGENES, AND PLATO ON RELIGION

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The Author.

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"In Nature there is no evolution, but only co-evolution; there is no differentiation but only co-differentiation. The little ones have quite overlooked all that; and that is why so many of the statements of co-differentiation in my zoology can be neither confirmed nor refuted by them. Who dare say which is a 'part' in Nature? Is the hand a 'part,' that is, something that might legitimately be told off as a speciality? Or must it be studied in connection with the arm, or with its homologies in the nether part of the body?

"In the same way: what constitutes a 'period' in history? Any division of a hundred or a thousand years by two, three, or four? Or by a division of twenty-five or thirty only? Who can tell? A man who says he is a specialist in the thirteenth century, is he not like a man who pretends that he is a specialist in respiration in the evening?

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