Desert and Plam Trees

MAN’S RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD

 

Chapter 25 - The Dead Theory of the Church’s Marriage Bond

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artistic imagination and the executed work of art. Or again it is similar to the chasm between military theory and defeat in battle, which occurred often enough in the First World War. Intangible things either exist in the consciousness, or they do not exist at all for the people concerned - except in the empty formalities of the law. Emma or Madame Bovary was right to believe in the reality of what the consciousness perceives, whether or not it is possible to express this reality adequately in one's behaviour, or in action.