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Unamuno, Miguel de and Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)
THE STARTING-POINT
Tragedy of Paradise—Disease an element of progress—Necessity of knowing in order to live—Instinct of preservation and instinct of perpetuation—The sensible world and the ideal world—Practical starting-point of all philosophy—Knowledge an end in itself?—The man Descartes—The longing not to die