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 38
... detachment , has enabled man to make many experi- ments whose bad results , if encountered in organic form , would have been fatal to the species . At the same time , it has given a certain dura- bility to insights and discoveries that ...
... detachment , has enabled man to make many experi- ments whose bad results , if encountered in organic form , would have been fatal to the species . At the same time , it has given a certain dura- bility to insights and discoveries that ...
Page 82
... detachment , like faith , hope , and charity , must count among the theological virtues : they belong to the waning phase of life , as pride , generation , and attachment belong to the waxing phase . Man often reaches his best ...
... detachment , like faith , hope , and charity , must count among the theological virtues : they belong to the waning phase of life , as pride , generation , and attachment belong to the waxing phase . Man often reaches his best ...
Page 263
... detachment and the wide per- spectives he gained in his more or less solitary retreats . Roosevelt found a similar detachment in a ship at sea . Those who omit this act of recuperation and re - creation , by over- submission to the ...
... detachment and the wide per- spectives he gained in his more or less solitary retreats . Roosevelt found a similar detachment in a ship at sea . Those who omit this act of recuperation and re - creation , by over- submission to the ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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