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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... totalitarian and quasi - totalitarian governments . The handsomest encomium for such creatures is : " They do not make trouble . " Their highest virtue is : " They do not stick their necks out . " Ultimately , such a society pro- duces ...
... totalitarian and quasi - totalitarian governments . The handsomest encomium for such creatures is : " They do not make trouble . " Their highest virtue is : " They do not stick their necks out . " Ultimately , such a society pro- duces ...
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... totalitarian regime may well last for at least a century or two , as Russian Czarism did , before it is corrupted beyond repair by its evils . Now history shows that even the most successful efforts at stabiliza- tion by fixation and ...
... totalitarian regime may well last for at least a century or two , as Russian Czarism did , before it is corrupted beyond repair by its evils . Now history shows that even the most successful efforts at stabiliza- tion by fixation and ...
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... totalitarian countries today , the sense of being the healthy exponents of a new form of life . This is but a momentary illusion . The totalitarian drug is as fatal as the infection it arrests . Thus the inertia of " progress " today ...
... totalitarian countries today , the sense of being the healthy exponents of a new form of life . This is but a momentary illusion . The totalitarian drug is as fatal as the infection it arrests . Thus the inertia of " progress " today ...
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THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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