The Conduct of LifeSecker & Warburg, 1952 - 342 pages |
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Page 78
... operations , confined to a river valley or a city , it remains for the most part an essential characteristic of the higher religions . On this interpretation , religion presented in mythic terms , long before biology began to trudge ...
... operations , confined to a river valley or a city , it remains for the most part an essential characteristic of the higher religions . On this interpretation , religion presented in mythic terms , long before biology began to trudge ...
Page 232
... operation than UNRRA and the Marshall Plan envisaged , might have led all mankind toward positive peace . That effort ... operations of automatism , are already in existence : let me emphasize this fact . Indeed the very persons who will ...
... operation than UNRRA and the Marshall Plan envisaged , might have led all mankind toward positive peace . That effort ... operations of automatism , are already in existence : let me emphasize this fact . Indeed the very persons who will ...
Page 280
... operations , enjoy such contacts and adventures , is a sign of our defective life- values , indeed of our barbarized and regressive culture : a culture sunk , for all its advances in health and technology and economic se- curity , far ...
... operations , enjoy such contacts and adventures , is a sign of our defective life- values , indeed of our barbarized and regressive culture : a culture sunk , for all its advances in health and technology and economic se- curity , far ...
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