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 66
... cosmic processes and prospers best when some sense of a cosmic pur- pose attends his daily activities . Man's positive knowledge of these processes and purposes is but a film that supports him as the skin on a glass of warm milk ...
... cosmic processes and prospers best when some sense of a cosmic pur- pose attends his daily activities . Man's positive knowledge of these processes and purposes is but a film that supports him as the skin on a glass of warm milk ...
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... cosmic solitude and the frustrating brevity of man's life . Even now these ends are difficult to approach by pure speculation ; and no wonder : could the earliest one - celled or- ganism anticipate the eventual emergence of a multi ...
... cosmic solitude and the frustrating brevity of man's life . Even now these ends are difficult to approach by pure speculation ; and no wonder : could the earliest one - celled or- ganism anticipate the eventual emergence of a multi ...
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... cosmic cycle : it embraces centuries , millennia , eons . That telescopic view both diminishes the claims of the individual moment and enlarges its ultimate significance . Such a view contrasts with the sacrilegious American jibe ...
... cosmic cycle : it embraces centuries , millennia , eons . That telescopic view both diminishes the claims of the individual moment and enlarges its ultimate significance . Such a view contrasts with the sacrilegious American jibe ...
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THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
The Emergence of the Divine | 68 |
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