The Conduct of LifeSecker & Warburg, 1952 - 342 pages |
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Page 14
... become pro- gressively more constrained , as external pressures become more per- vasive and overbearing . In the end , as Samuel Butler satirically prophesied , man may become just a machine's contrivance for repro- ducing another ...
... become pro- gressively more constrained , as external pressures become more per- vasive and overbearing . In the end , as Samuel Butler satirically prophesied , man may become just a machine's contrivance for repro- ducing another ...
Page 216
... becomes da - da : once dynamic leaders become dangling puppets : life itself suddenly gets deflated , with an obscene snort , like a toy balloon ripping on a nail . Thenceforward a culture may for many centuries go on repeating the old ...
... becomes da - da : once dynamic leaders become dangling puppets : life itself suddenly gets deflated , with an obscene snort , like a toy balloon ripping on a nail . Thenceforward a culture may for many centuries go on repeating the old ...
Page 275
... become sluggish and automatic in their behavior , incapable of making fresh decisions like persons , just to the ... become effective at every level : in the family and the neighbor- hood at one pole , and in a world government ...
... become sluggish and automatic in their behavior , incapable of making fresh decisions like persons , just to the ... become effective at every level : in the family and the neighbor- hood at one pole , and in a world government ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF | 92 |
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achieved action activities animal become biological type body bring Buddhism capable capacity century Christian civilization concept consciousness cosmic create creative creatures culture death detachment dionysian discipline disintegration divine doctrine dominant drama dream dynamic dynamic equilibrium effect effort elements emergence essential ethics evil existence experience external fact forces functions further goal growth habits Herman Melville higher Hindu Hinduism human personality ideal impulses inner insight interpretation invention 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 practice present present philosophy produce promethean psychodrama purpose religion renewal response role romanticism Schweitzer seek self-fabricating sense single Singular Points social society Socrates spiritual super-ego symbols teleology tion Toynbee transformation unity universal values whole world government York