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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... energy : a new period of sun - power and electric power is at hand that will utilize current income , instead of dissipating our capital reserves of wood , coal , petroleum , or uranium . The out- put of our machines will rise , while ...
... energy : a new period of sun - power and electric power is at hand that will utilize current income , instead of dissipating our capital reserves of wood , coal , petroleum , or uranium . The out- put of our machines will rise , while ...
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... energy calls for continuous ef- fort . There is indeed a sort of dialectic opposition , throughout all crea- tion , between the tendency to fall into a state of stability and immo- bility , and the tendency to climb upward , to seize ...
... energy calls for continuous ef- fort . There is indeed a sort of dialectic opposition , throughout all crea- tion , between the tendency to fall into a state of stability and immo- bility , and the tendency to climb upward , to seize ...
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... energy and time devoted to travel and intercourse on a world scale , and interchange of workers and students between regions now ingrown , suspicious , and hostile through their isolationism . To supplement a universalism based on mere ...
... energy and time devoted to travel and intercourse on a world scale , and interchange of workers and students between regions now ingrown , suspicious , and hostile through their isolationism . To supplement a universalism based on mere ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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