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 122
Lewis Mumford. are as lacking in nature as warm - blooded animals were in the days when the great reptiles alone reigned ... lack the ability to describe the process of human de- velopment , since it has no criterion for distinguishing ...
Lewis Mumford. are as lacking in nature as warm - blooded animals were in the days when the great reptiles alone reigned ... lack the ability to describe the process of human de- velopment , since it has no criterion for distinguishing ...
Page 213
... lacks in some degree the catholicism and the charity of Archbishop Söderblom's interpretation of The Living God ... lack the organic wholeness of his life . This arises from the fact that he abandons the attempt to achieve a world ...
... lacks in some degree the catholicism and the charity of Archbishop Söderblom's interpretation of The Living God ... lack the organic wholeness of his life . This arises from the fact that he abandons the attempt to achieve a world ...
Page 254
... lack both the energies and the tools to extricate themselves from the debris they have allowed to block their return to life . Deficiency of life , and because of that deficiency an almost unendurable boredom , hangs over our ...
... lack both the energies and the tools to extricate themselves from the debris they have allowed to block their return to life . Deficiency of life , and because of that deficiency an almost unendurable boredom , hangs over our ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
The Emergence of the Divine | 68 |
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