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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Lewis Mumford. are as lacking in nature as warm - blooded animals were in the days when the great reptiles alone reigned ... lack the ability to describe the process of human de- velopment , since it has no criterion for distinguishing ...
Lewis Mumford. are as lacking in nature as warm - blooded animals were in the days when the great reptiles alone reigned ... lack the ability to describe the process of human de- velopment , since it has no criterion for distinguishing ...
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... Lacking the ca- pacity to feel , when feeling is an imperative condition for living on a human plane , we also lack the capacity for action . Those who most prided themselves on their absence of righteous anger and anxiety , when the ...
... Lacking the ca- pacity to feel , when feeling is an imperative condition for living on a human plane , we also lack the capacity for action . Those who most prided themselves on their absence of righteous anger and anxiety , when the ...
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... lack both the energies and the tools to extricate themselves from the debris they have allowed to block their return to life . Deficiency of life , and because of that deficiency an almost unendurable boredom , hangs over our ...
... lack both the energies and the tools to extricate themselves from the debris they have allowed to block their return to life . Deficiency of life , and because of that deficiency an almost unendurable boredom , hangs over our ...
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THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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