The Conduct of LifeSecker & Warburg, 1952 - 342 pages |
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Page 69
... beginning of time : still less that time itself has a beginning or an ending . Every step in the process of cosmic evolution , no matter how plausible the connections , how closely related the stages when one looks back upon them , may ...
... beginning of time : still less that time itself has a beginning or an ending . Every step in the process of cosmic evolution , no matter how plausible the connections , how closely related the stages when one looks back upon them , may ...
Page 70
... beginning or the end : we have looked for an enclosed system with a single cause at the beginning , a single consummation at the end . But the tendency toward organization , development , life , personality does not in fact become ...
... beginning or the end : we have looked for an enclosed system with a single cause at the beginning , a single consummation at the end . But the tendency toward organization , development , life , personality does not in fact become ...
Page 131
... beginning no rigidly pre - ordained route is not the same as to say that one has no provisional destination . At the time Spinoza uttered this judgment there was , indeed , good ground for his taking that position ; for the scholastic ...
... beginning no rigidly pre - ordained route is not the same as to say that one has no provisional destination . At the time Spinoza uttered this judgment there was , indeed , good ground for his taking that position ; for the scholastic ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF | 92 |
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