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 133
... effect of functional design , were transferred from the world of business to that of nature . Properly rejecting Archdeacon Paley's con- ception of an Eternal Clockmaker , who designed and wound up the universe , fashionable thought ...
... effect of functional design , were transferred from the world of business to that of nature . Properly rejecting Archdeacon Paley's con- ception of an Eternal Clockmaker , who designed and wound up the universe , fashionable thought ...
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... effects of memory and through the further effects of time and fresh events and new purposes on maturation and growth ... effect of furthering spiritual growth and transcendence far more positively than any condition of effortless ease ...
... effects of memory and through the further effects of time and fresh events and new purposes on maturation and growth ... effect of furthering spiritual growth and transcendence far more positively than any condition of effortless ease ...
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... effect out of all proportion to its physical powers , just as a tiny seed - crystal , dropped into a saturate solution , may cause the whole mass to assume a similar crystalline form . Such timely intervention of a " physical magnitude ...
... effect out of all proportion to its physical powers , just as a tiny seed - crystal , dropped into a saturate solution , may cause the whole mass to assume a similar crystalline form . Such timely intervention of a " physical magnitude ...
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THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
ORIENTATION TO LIFE | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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achieved action active animal become biological type bring Buddhist capable capacity century Christian civilization concept conscious cosmic create creative creatures culture death detachment dionysian discipline disintegration divine doctrine dominant drama dream dynamic dynamic equilibrium effect effort elements emergence essential ethical evil existence experience external fact forces functions further goal growth habits Herman Melville higher Hindu human personality ical ideal impulses inner insight interpretation isolationism lack life's living man's Marxism means mechanical ment merely mind modern moral nature once one's organic original Patrick Geddes pattern perhaps philosophy physical Plato possible potentialities practice present present philosophy produce promethean psychodrama purpose religion renewal response role romanticism routine Schweitzer seek self-fabricating sense single Singular Points social society Socrates spirit super-ego symbols teleology tion totalitarian Toynbee transformation universal values whole world government York