The Conduct of LifeDiscusses 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. -- Publisher's description. |
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Page 58
Because of its reliance on subjective revelation , religion has dared to include whole tracts of human experience that escape the scientific net , no matter how fine the mesh or how skillful the casting .
Because of its reliance on subjective revelation , religion has dared to include whole tracts of human experience that escape the scientific net , no matter how fine the mesh or how skillful the casting .
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As Kali , as Ahriman , as Satan , as Loki , the devil personifies an inescapable fact of human experience : the fact of de - building , disorganization , degradation . William Morton Wheeler's discussion of Emergent Evolution is ...
As Kali , as Ahriman , as Satan , as Loki , the devil personifies an inescapable fact of human experience : the fact of de - building , disorganization , degradation . William Morton Wheeler's discussion of Emergent Evolution is ...
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The only form of thing that we directly encounter , the only experience that we concretely have , is our personal life . The only complete category of our thinking , our professors of philosophy tell us , is the category of personality ...
The only form of thing that we directly encounter , the only experience that we concretely have , is our personal life . The only complete category of our thinking , our professors of philosophy tell us , is the category of personality ...
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Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
ORIENTATION TO LIFE | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Conduct of Life Volume 34 of Harvest book Harvest book, HB 34 |
| Author | Lewis Mumford |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace, 1951 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 11 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 342 pages |
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