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 46
... perhaps half the sins and crimes men commit come about be- cause they pass too easily , without prudent reflection , from that inner state to the public performance of their fantasy . In childhood , perhaps even more in adolescence ...
... perhaps half the sins and crimes men commit come about be- cause they pass too easily , without prudent reflection , from that inner state to the public performance of their fantasy . In childhood , perhaps even more in adolescence ...
Page 108
Lewis Mumford. Perhaps the deepest source of this resistance in Western society is the general reaction , since the ... perhaps that little modifications can be made by food and drugs , by habit and exercise , and that further social ...
Lewis Mumford. Perhaps the deepest source of this resistance in Western society is the general reaction , since the ... perhaps that little modifications can be made by food and drugs , by habit and exercise , and that further social ...
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... perhaps reached their final limit of life - negation and life - debasement in the Nazi extermination chambers where once repu- table physicians , with high standing in science , subjected their vic- tims to endless ingenuities of pseudo ...
... perhaps reached their final limit of life - negation and life - debasement in the Nazi extermination chambers where once repu- table physicians , with high standing in science , subjected their vic- tims to endless ingenuities of pseudo ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
The Emergence of the Divine | 68 |
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