The Conduct of LifeSecker & Warburg, 1952 - 342 pages |
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Page 83
... further development . Here religion , with the rise of civilization that is , an ample food supply and a secure life - pointed the way , through deliberate sacrifice , to further growth and renewal . In its minor forms , sacrifice ...
... further development . Here religion , with the rise of civilization that is , an ample food supply and a secure life - pointed the way , through deliberate sacrifice , to further growth and renewal . In its minor forms , sacrifice ...
Page 249
... further exploration of the terrestrial globe : it not merely enables the observer to chart familiar territory more accurately , but it brings into view undiscovered land in related areas . The success of the Rorschach ink - blot ...
... further exploration of the terrestrial globe : it not merely enables the observer to chart familiar territory more accurately , but it brings into view undiscovered land in related areas . The success of the Rorschach ink - blot ...
Page 279
... further study , further travel , fur- ther research , for further tasks and adventures , as the harried young people of today , threatened with the horrid compulsions of war , caught in the bureaucratic routine of school , office , and ...
... further study , further travel , fur- ther research , for further tasks and adventures , as the harried young people of today , threatened with the horrid compulsions of war , caught in the bureaucratic routine of school , office , and ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
Canvass of Possibilities | 5 |
Diagnosis of Our Times | 11 |
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achieved action activities animal balance become biological biological type bring Buddhism capable capacity Captain Ahab century Christian civilization concept consciousness cosmic create creative creature culture death detachment dionysian discipline disintegration divine doctrine dominant drama dream dynamic equilibrium effort elements emergence energy environment essential ethical evil existence experience external fact forces functions further goal growth habits Henri Bergson Herman Melville higher Hindu Hinduism human personality ical ideal impulses inner insight interpretation invention isolationism language 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 primitive produce purpose rational religion renewal response role romanticism sacrifice Schweitzer seek self-fabrication sense single social society Socrates spirit super-ego survival symbols teleology tion Toynbee transformation universal values whole York