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Good and evil

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  • A white angel-like figure with wings being embraced by a black demon-like creature with ears with a quote from Friedrich Dürrenmatt stating that love is a miracle but evil is never very far away; a warning about AIDS by the AIDS-Hilfe Vorarlberg. Colour lithograph by Kurt Dornig.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • Two demonic physiognomies, expressive of malignity. Drawing, c. 1789.
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    Natures picture drawn by fancies pencil to the life : being several feigned stories, comical, tragical, tragi-comical, poetical, romanicical, philosophical, historical, and moral : some in verse, some in prose, some mixt, and some by dialogues / written by ... the Duchess of Newcastle.

    Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674 | Date: 1671
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    Two demonic physiognomies, expressive of malignity. Drawing, c. 1789.

    | Date: c. 1789 | Reference: 29009i
    • Books

    Evil genes : why Rome fell, Hitler rose, Enron failed and my sister stole my mother's boyfriend / Barbara Oakley.

    Oakley, Barbara A., 1955- | Date: 2007
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    The powers of evil in Western religion, magic and folk belief / Richard Cavendish.

    Cavendish, Richard. | Date: 1975
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    Just babies : the origins of good and evil / by Paul Bloom.

    Bloom, Paul, 1963- | Date: 2013
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