The Conduct of LifeDiscusses 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. -- Publisher's description. |
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So retarding was man's dream consciousness , so easily did it lend itself to perversion , that Dr A. L. Kroeber has ... particular human image during even his waking hours that a person may become conscious suddenly of the fact that he ...
So retarding was man's dream consciousness , so easily did it lend itself to perversion , that Dr A. L. Kroeber has ... particular human image during even his waking hours that a person may become conscious suddenly of the fact that he ...
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But the kernel of religious consciousness is a profound sense of the nature and meaning of life in all its dimensions : an intuition of the whole . In every religious myth , from that of Kali the destroyer to ...
But the kernel of religious consciousness is a profound sense of the nature and meaning of life in all its dimensions : an intuition of the whole . In every religious myth , from that of Kali the destroyer to ...
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would not reveal ; while what is relatively even a moment of significant consciousness in the life of man , transforms him from a mere speck lost in an almost boundless universe , into a progressively boundless mind , capable of ...
would not reveal ; while what is relatively even a moment of significant consciousness in the life of man , transforms him from a mere speck lost in an almost boundless universe , into a progressively boundless mind , capable of ...
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Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
ORIENTATION TO LIFE | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Conduct of Life Volume 34 of Harvest book Harvest book, HB 34 |
| Author | Lewis Mumford |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace, 1951 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 11 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 342 pages |
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