The Conduct of LifeSecker & Warburg, 1952 - 342 pages |
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Page 81
... positive pole , particularly on the descending curve of life . This part of life must be faced and embraced too : an arduous discipline . By the time men reach middle age , even the seemingly fortunate have some inkling of this ...
... positive pole , particularly on the descending curve of life . This part of life must be faced and embraced too : an arduous discipline . By the time men reach middle age , even the seemingly fortunate have some inkling of this ...
Page 122
... positive knowledge may be , he must constantly affix positive or negative values to every event , in order to guide his own life in the direction of de- velopment . To know the difference between right and wrong , between good and evil ...
... positive knowledge may be , he must constantly affix positive or negative values to every event , in order to guide his own life in the direction of de- velopment . To know the difference between right and wrong , between good and evil ...
Page 168
... positive evil . That change , as we know , brought compensations that other coun- tries , which shrank collectively from making the same choice , did not share . The high morale of Britain after the war , with its equable sys- tem of ...
... positive evil . That change , as we know , brought compensations that other coun- tries , which shrank collectively from making the same choice , did not share . The high morale of Britain after the war , with its equable sys- tem of ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF | 92 |
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