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 54
... existence , and eventually an ampler sanity and bal- ance than dumb animal existence could achieve . When mankind gave its days over to babbling and dreaming , life took a new path , at right angles to the horizontal plane of organic ...
... existence , and eventually an ampler sanity and bal- ance than dumb animal existence could achieve . When mankind gave its days over to babbling and dreaming , life took a new path , at right angles to the horizontal plane of organic ...
Page 88
... existence of mystery itself . Whether we consider God in the orthodox form as the boundless Being that encompasses all existence , or as the emergent divinity that realizes the purposes and potencies that otherwise remain only latent in ...
... existence of mystery itself . Whether we consider God in the orthodox form as the boundless Being that encompasses all existence , or as the emergent divinity that realizes the purposes and potencies that otherwise remain only latent in ...
Page 122
... existence . And any scientific anthropology that attempts to ignore values , as outside the pale of science , or to dismiss values as culture - bound and so self- enclosed , must lack the ability to describe the process of human de ...
... existence . And any scientific anthropology that attempts to ignore values , as outside the pale of science , or to dismiss values as culture - bound and so self- enclosed , must lack the ability to describe the process of human de ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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