The Condition of ManHarcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973 - 467 pages Since the original publication of this book, Lewis Mumford observes in his new Preface, his analysis of the weaknesses of modern civilization has been confirmed: the condition of man has worsened; "What were once only local demoralizations or disasters now threaten to turn into planetary calamities." Despite this bleak prospect, the author shuns the philosophies of anti-life made fashionable by the nihilists, the existentialists, and the "brutalists, " and, as in all his work, stresses instead an essentially hopeful view of man's nature and the possibilities for human development. |
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... truth in the very order of nature : it is the truth of habit , that every good act makes good- ness easier and every bad act makes badness more incorrigible ; it is the truth of knowledge , that those who have labored diligently acquire ...
... truth in the very order of nature : it is the truth of habit , that every good act makes good- ness easier and every bad act makes badness more incorrigible ; it is the truth of knowledge , that those who have labored diligently acquire ...
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... truth of the original incarnation would have been lost . Each of these figures was less than Jesus ; yet by his response to new stimuli , new pressures , new challenges , he reformulated the truths of Christianity in a manner that re ...
... truth of the original incarnation would have been lost . Each of these figures was less than Jesus ; yet by his response to new stimuli , new pressures , new challenges , he reformulated the truths of Christianity in a manner that re ...
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... truth without having to begin all over again . The very method was self- corrective : nor was it necessary to prop up an original error because it had become so deeply embedded in the resulting structure that its re- moval might cause ...
... truth without having to begin all over again . The very method was self- corrective : nor was it necessary to prop up an original error because it had become so deeply embedded in the resulting structure that its re- moval might cause ...
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INTRODUCTION | 3 |
PRELUDE TO AN | 17 |
THE PRIMACY OF THE PERSON | 52 |
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