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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... environment , but with a multitude of other organisms . Living organisms , by the most complex and far- reaching operations , form food - chains and work - chains that extend from the bacteria in the soil and the air to the domesticated ...
... environment , but with a multitude of other organisms . Living organisms , by the most complex and far- reaching operations , form food - chains and work - chains that extend from the bacteria in the soil and the air to the domesticated ...
Page 86
... environment : the last thing he would be capable of grasping is the fact that his environment is beyond his grasp . Not so with man . Reli- gion teaches men systematically what his dawning intelligence prompts him to suspect , that ...
... environment : the last thing he would be capable of grasping is the fact that his environment is beyond his grasp . Not so with man . Reli- gion teaches men systematically what his dawning intelligence prompts him to suspect , that ...
Page 128
... environment left its definite mark . For the fact is that all organisms are striving and forward - moving creatures : even their most passive responses are still determined by general goals derived from their organic plan of life : they ...
... environment left its definite mark . For the fact is that all organisms are striving and forward - moving creatures : even their most passive responses are still determined by general goals derived from their organic plan of life : they ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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