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 65
... consciousness nothing ? Does their rarity , as one sweeps over the whole range of cosmic forces and events , make them ... conscious knowledge of any single generation cannot be compared for trustworthiness with the funded experience ...
... consciousness nothing ? Does their rarity , as one sweeps over the whole range of cosmic forces and events , make them ... conscious knowledge of any single generation cannot be compared for trustworthiness with the funded experience ...
Page 87
... consciousness is a profound sense of the nature and meaning of life in all its dimensions : an intuition of the ... conscious- ness has doubtless superstitiously served many factitious interests and local needs : but it has remained ...
... consciousness is a profound sense of the nature and meaning of life in all its dimensions : an intuition of the ... conscious- ness has doubtless superstitiously served many factitious interests and local needs : but it has remained ...
Page 247
... consciously altering the relation of the head to the spinal column he corrected his ailment ; and his success with ... conscious release . Such revelations may be just as hard * In 1944 , in a class on the Nature of Personality at ...
... consciously altering the relation of the head to the spinal column he corrected his ailment ; and his success with ... conscious release . Such revelations may be just as hard * In 1944 , in a class on the Nature of Personality at ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
The Emergence of the Divine | 68 |
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