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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... capacity so little as two horsepower : along that line , he might have taken half a million years to effect , by selective breeding or otherwise , this tremendous change in his muscu- lar capacity . And when he had done so , he would ...
... capacity so little as two horsepower : along that line , he might have taken half a million years to effect , by selective breeding or otherwise , this tremendous change in his muscu- lar capacity . And when he had done so , he would ...
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... capacity to use language , an earlier human invention , the whole round earth would fade away more swiftly than Prospero's vision : insubstantial and dreamlike , without the words that arrest it and order it into widening patches of ...
... capacity to use language , an earlier human invention , the whole round earth would fade away more swiftly than Prospero's vision : insubstantial and dreamlike , without the words that arrest it and order it into widening patches of ...
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... capacity for struggle or divert them from their practical goals . By various combinations of these fundamental attitudes , one arrives at the almost inexhaustible richness and variety of human society , in which pure types are an ...
... capacity for struggle or divert them from their practical goals . By various combinations of these fundamental attitudes , one arrives at the almost inexhaustible richness and variety of human society , in which pure types are an ...
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THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
The Emergence of the Divine | 68 |
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achieved action active animal become biological type body bring Buddhism capable capacity century Christian civilization concept conscious cosmic create creative creatures culture death detachment dionysian discipline disintegration divine doctrine dominant drama dream dynamic dynamic equilibrium effect effort elements emergence essential ethics evil existence experience external fact forces functions further goal growth habits Herman Melville higher Hindu Hinduism human personality ideal impulses inner insight interpretation isolationism lack life's living man's Marxism means mechanical ment merely mind modern moral nature once one's organic original Patrick Geddes pattern perhaps philosophy physical Plato possible potentialities practice present present philosophy produce promethean psychodrama purpose religion renewal response role romanticism Schweitzer seek self-fabricating sense single Singular Points social society Socrates spirit super-ego symbols teleology tion Toynbee transformation unity universal values whole world government York