The Conduct of LifeHarcourt, Brace, 1951 - 342 pages Discusses the ultimate ethical and religious issues that confront modern man and offers a new orientation, directed to the renewal of life and the reintegration of modern civilization. |
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Page 183
... effects of memory and through the further effects of time and fresh events and new purposes on maturation and growth ... effect of furthering spiritual growth and transcendence far more positively than any condition of effortless ease ...
... effects of memory and through the further effects of time and fresh events and new purposes on maturation and growth ... effect of furthering spiritual growth and transcendence far more positively than any condition of effortless ease ...
Page 228
... effect out of all proportion to its physical powers , just as a tiny seed - crystal , dropped into a saturate solution , may cause the whole mass to assume a similar crystalline form . Such timely intervention of a " physical magnitude ...
... effect out of all proportion to its physical powers , just as a tiny seed - crystal , dropped into a saturate solution , may cause the whole mass to assume a similar crystalline form . Such timely intervention of a " physical magnitude ...
Page 229
Lewis Mumford. effect on the whole . Only within the compass of the person can a total change be effected within the ... effects . The only form of thing that we directly encounter , the only experience that we concretely have , is our ...
Lewis Mumford. effect on the whole . Only within the compass of the person can a total change be effected within the ... effects . The only form of thing that we directly encounter , the only experience that we concretely have , is our ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
2242 | 25 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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achieved action active animal become biological type body bring Buddhism capable capacity century Christian civilization concept conscious cosmic create creative creatures culture death detachment dionysian discipline disintegration divine doctrine dominant drama dream dynamic dynamic equilibrium effect effort elements emergence essential ethical evil existence experience external fact forces functions further goal growth habits Herman Melville higher Hindu Hinduism human personality ideal impulses inner insight interpretation 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 potentialities practice present present philosophy produce promethean psychodrama purpose religion renewal response role romanticism Schweitzer seek self-fabricating sense single Singular Points social society Socrates spirit super-ego symbols teleology tion Toynbee transformation unity universal values whole world government York