The Conduct of LifeHarcourt, Brace, 1951 - 342 pages Discusses the ultimate ethical and religious issues that confront modern man and offers a new orientation, directed to the renewal of life and the reintegration of modern civilization. |
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Page 183
... balance that is truly conceivable or desirable in the human organism is a dynamic balance : that of the fountain , endlessly chang- ing , though within the pattern of change retaining its form . Even the figure of the fountain is ...
... balance that is truly conceivable or desirable in the human organism is a dynamic balance : that of the fountain , endlessly chang- ing , though within the pattern of change retaining its form . Even the figure of the fountain is ...
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... balance that is partly achieved and assist in those further developments , which , by upsetting balance , lead to growth and increasing fullness of life . To this end , our sterile mechanistic culture must be exposed to an even more ...
... balance that is partly achieved and assist in those further developments , which , by upsetting balance , lead to growth and increasing fullness of life . To this end , our sterile mechanistic culture must be exposed to an even more ...
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... balance today , we can carry the whole process much farther than was possible through the earlier Greek or Renascence intuitions . But here I would emphasize one special aspect of balance that has a profound bearing upon the good life ...
... balance today , we can carry the whole process much farther than was possible through the earlier Greek or Renascence intuitions . But here I would emphasize one special aspect of balance that has a profound bearing upon the good life ...
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THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
The Emergence of the Divine | 68 |
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