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
... less precious or less significant ? If his god is but the enlargement by thousands of diameters of the power , the love , the knowledge he has developed through his own evolution , is that divine quality itself less real because of this ...
... less precious or less significant ? If his god is but the enlargement by thousands of diameters of the power , the love , the knowledge he has developed through his own evolution , is that divine quality itself less real because of this ...
Page 89
... less from the explanations offered by the so - called advanced minds of the recent past : the eighteenth century rationalists , with their con- viction that religion was a tissue of superstitions , framed by cunning priests for their ...
... less from the explanations offered by the so - called advanced minds of the recent past : the eighteenth century rationalists , with their con- viction that religion was a tissue of superstitions , framed by cunning priests for their ...
Page 239
... less than by missionary enterprise and imperialism , was itself a partial movement . Technical universalism needed the correction of eutopianism : a positive concept of justice and mutual aid , to take the place of the " white man's ...
... less than by missionary enterprise and imperialism , was itself a partial movement . Technical universalism needed the correction of eutopianism : a positive concept of justice and mutual aid , to take the place of the " white man's ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
The Emergence of the Divine | 68 |
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