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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... routine : late afternoon was traditionally the favored hour , in Paris , for illicit lovers ' assignations . The change of time and place by them- selves may have the quickening effect that people often seek only through a change of ...
... routine : late afternoon was traditionally the favored hour , in Paris , for illicit lovers ' assignations . The change of time and place by them- selves may have the quickening effect that people often seek only through a change of ...
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... routines would not survive if we dared to pause long enough to look at them . We shall not make the effort to control time , unless we realize how much of our work routine is not merely compulsive but obsessive : a neurotic attempt to ...
... routines would not survive if we dared to pause long enough to look at them . We shall not make the effort to control time , unless we realize how much of our work routine is not merely compulsive but obsessive : a neurotic attempt to ...
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... routine of life and releasing the human agent from slavish mechanical tasks . It is only where the per- son abdicates that mechanization presents a threat . But in order to recover initiative for the person , we must go over our whole ...
... routine of life and releasing the human agent from slavish mechanical tasks . It is only where the per- son abdicates that mechanization presents a threat . But in order to recover initiative for the person , we must go over our whole ...
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THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
The Emergence of the Divine | 68 |
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