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 16
... active and the passive barbarians . The exposure of this web of falsehood , self - deception , and emptiness is perhaps what made Death of a Salesman so poignant to the metropolitan American audiences that witnessed it . Now this ...
... active and the passive barbarians . The exposure of this web of falsehood , self - deception , and emptiness is perhaps what made Death of a Salesman so poignant to the metropolitan American audiences that witnessed it . Now this ...
Page 211
... active consecration as well as formal espousal , Schweitzer's doctrine revealed the depth of his insight ; for against the formalism of theology , he saw that the eight- eenth century had been , in fact , a time when Christian doctrine ...
... active consecration as well as formal espousal , Schweitzer's doctrine revealed the depth of his insight ; for against the formalism of theology , he saw that the eight- eenth century had been , in fact , a time when Christian doctrine ...
Page 278
... active service , doing a thou- sand things that need to be done , from planting forests and roadside strips , supervision of school children in nurseries and playgrounds to the active companionship with the aged , the blind , the ...
... active service , doing a thou- sand things that need to be done , from planting forests and roadside strips , supervision of school children in nurseries and playgrounds to the active companionship with the aged , the blind , the ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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