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 69
... beginning of time : still less that time itself has a beginning or an ending . Every step in the process of cosmic evolution , no matter how plausible the connections , how closely related the stages when one looks back upon them , may ...
... beginning of time : still less that time itself has a beginning or an ending . Every step in the process of cosmic evolution , no matter how plausible the connections , how closely related the stages when one looks back upon them , may ...
Page 70
... beginning or the end : we have looked for an enclosed system with a single cause at the beginning , a single consummation at the end . But the tendency toward organization , development , life , personality does not in fact become ...
... beginning or the end : we have looked for an enclosed system with a single cause at the beginning , a single consummation at the end . But the tendency toward organization , development , life , personality does not in fact become ...
Page 114
... beginning of the twentieth century , or rather , till the First World War , were there concrete evidences of those shrinkages and lapses that went on so dishearteningly through- out the Hellenic world from the end of the fifth century ...
... beginning of the twentieth century , or rather , till the First World War , were there concrete evidences of those shrinkages and lapses that went on so dishearteningly through- out the Hellenic world from the end of the fifth century ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
The Emergence of the Divine | 68 |
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