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 77
... bring to an end the very conditions of life that set it off from brute matter : life eternal is in fact a contradiction in terms . But religion's repeated insistence upon eternity and immor- tality must have had , in the earlier stages ...
... bring to an end the very conditions of life that set it off from brute matter : life eternal is in fact a contradiction in terms . But religion's repeated insistence upon eternity and immor- tality must have had , in the earlier stages ...
Page 138
... bring about self - destruction . Cancer is , from the standpoint of the organism , prolific but purposeless growth , and all purposeless growth must produce death . By the same token , a purpose that reaches beyond any immediate ...
... bring about self - destruction . Cancer is , from the standpoint of the organism , prolific but purposeless growth , and all purposeless growth must produce death . By the same token , a purpose that reaches beyond any immediate ...
Page 279
... bring back into every village and city a touch of the universal society of which they form an active part . Such people would be ready for further study , further travel , fur- ther research , for further tasks and adventures , as the ...
... bring back into every village and city a touch of the universal society of which they form an active part . Such people would be ready for further study , further travel , fur- ther research , for further tasks and adventures , as the ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
The Emergence of the Divine | 68 |
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