The Conduct of LifeSecker & Warburg, 1952 - 342 pages |
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... HERMAN MELVILLE 1929 THE BROWN DECADES 1931 MEN MUST ACT 1939 FAITH FOR LIVING 1940 THE SOUTH IN ARCHI- TECTURE 1941 CITY DEVELOPMENT 1945 VALUES FOR SURVIVAL 1946 GREEN MEMORIES 1947 I. TECHNICS AND CIVILIZATION 1934 II . THE CULTURE ...
... HERMAN MELVILLE 1929 THE BROWN DECADES 1931 MEN MUST ACT 1939 FAITH FOR LIVING 1940 THE SOUTH IN ARCHI- TECTURE 1941 CITY DEVELOPMENT 1945 VALUES FOR SURVIVAL 1946 GREEN MEMORIES 1947 I. TECHNICS AND CIVILIZATION 1934 II . THE CULTURE ...
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... Herman Melville : a novel whose sub - title , The Ambiguities , underlines the discoveries that Melville himself made in the very course of writing it , and embodied in the paper attributed to the Transcendental philosopher , Plotinus ...
... Herman Melville : a novel whose sub - title , The Ambiguities , underlines the discoveries that Melville himself made in the very course of writing it , and embodied in the paper attributed to the Transcendental philosopher , Plotinus ...
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... Melville observes , produces a few rare souls who try to guide their lives by heavenly time , and seek to make that ... Herman Melville drew the correct conclusions . In his endeavor to confound the morality of prudence ...
... Melville observes , produces a few rare souls who try to guide their lives by heavenly time , and seek to make that ... Herman Melville drew the correct conclusions . In his endeavor to confound the morality of prudence ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
Canvass of Possibilities | 5 |
Diagnosis of Our Times | 11 |
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