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 37
... biological one it would no doubt have been extremely slow and limited in all its possibilities . Suppose , for example , man had concentrated upon in- creasing his individual working capacity so little as two horsepower : along that ...
... biological one it would no doubt have been extremely slow and limited in all its possibilities . Suppose , for example , man had concentrated upon in- creasing his individual working capacity so little as two horsepower : along that ...
Page 92
... biological inheritance , and a socially acquired na- ture , shaped by his history and his culture , not least by his aspira- tions and anticipations . Apart from earliest infancy man's original nature never becomes visible except as it ...
... biological inheritance , and a socially acquired na- ture , shaped by his history and his culture , not least by his aspira- tions and anticipations . Apart from earliest infancy man's original nature never becomes visible except as it ...
Page 195
... biological endowment and live in accordance with it : at the moment of crisis , in Shaw's Androcles and the Lion , the giant Ferrovius dis- covers that he is no meek Christian , but a man of angry passion and aggressive muscular ...
... biological endowment and live in accordance with it : at the moment of crisis , in Shaw's Androcles and the Lion , the giant Ferrovius dis- covers that he is no meek Christian , but a man of angry passion and aggressive muscular ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
Canvass of Possibilities 5 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LIBRARIES 3 Diagnosis of Our Times | 11 |
Alternatives to Catastrophe | 18 |
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