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 228
... 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 too small to be taken account of by ...
... 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 too small to be taken account of by ...
Page 242
... physical sciences , from which so many essential attributes of organic life are eliminated , there is a molar aspect and a molecular one , an astronomic field and an atomic field : and between these extremes there are many levels of ...
... physical sciences , from which so many essential attributes of organic life are eliminated , there is a molar aspect and a molecular one , an astronomic field and an atomic field : and between these extremes there are many levels of ...
Page 335
... Physical magnitudes , importance of small , 228 Physical need , 126 Physical world , scientific description of , 58 Physicist , as Ethan Brand , 17 Physics , nuclear , 90 Physiology , 192 Picnic , romantic popularization of , 234 Pierre ...
... Physical magnitudes , importance of small , 228 Physical need , 126 Physical world , scientific description of , 58 Physicist , as Ethan Brand , 17 Physics , nuclear , 90 Physiology , 192 Picnic , romantic popularization of , 234 Pierre ...
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 consciousness 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