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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... elements from the soil , or activate too large a quantity of fissionable elements , it may have precisely the opposite effect . " Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers . " The fact that physical scientists have penetrated the interior of ...
... elements from the soil , or activate too large a quantity of fissionable elements , it may have precisely the opposite effect . " Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers . " The fact that physical scientists have penetrated the interior of ...
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... elements , offers him food , supplies him with speech , surrounds him with some degree of love , endows him with a score of gifts before he has even left the cradle . Starting out in such a world , we discover that friendliness and un ...
... elements , offers him food , supplies him with speech , surrounds him with some degree of love , endows him with a score of gifts before he has even left the cradle . Starting out in such a world , we discover that friendliness and un ...
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... elements . For ages that dream haunted man irrationally : at the end of the Middle Ages in Europe the alchemists ... elements , there was little hope that this dream could be realized : indeed , the more knowledge accumulated , up ...
... elements . For ages that dream haunted man irrationally : at the end of the Middle Ages in Europe the alchemists ... elements , there was little hope that this dream could be realized : indeed , the more knowledge accumulated , up ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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