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By it we can best link up the actual and the ideal, and demonstrate the single character of human greatness; whether it be exhibited, in the physical or the supersensual sphere.
From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Evelyn Underhill
It alone extends the narrow horizon of their thoughts, supplies the images of their dreams, allures them to the supersensual and the ideal.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
The thrill it gave her was unlike the shock that she remembered receiving from the poem of his youth, the shiver they had all felt, as at the passing by of the supersensual.
From The Creators A Comedy by May Sinclair
Their literature attests that they considered love a degrading, sensual passion, not an ennobling, supersensual sentiment, as we do.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
I for my part cannot find in them even a hint at supersensual altruistic sentiment.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
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