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 73
As soon as religion , in fact , makes its God the creator and all - wise author of the universe , it must either gloze over the evils of existence at the expense of truth , or it must invoke another principle , equally at work in the ...
As soon as religion , in fact , makes its God the creator and all - wise author of the universe , it must either gloze over the evils of existence at the expense of truth , or it must invoke another principle , equally at work in the ...
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This simple fact was well put by an American soldier in combat during the Second World War : " It's hard , " he wrote , " for men who live only because they co - operate , to explain things to people who live only as semi - isolated ...
This simple fact was well put by an American soldier in combat during the Second World War : " It's hard , " he wrote , " for men who live only because they co - operate , to explain things to people who live only as semi - isolated ...
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Yet with all of Socrates ' patient examination and self - exposure , I cannot recall any point in the Dialogues in which he examines his own conduct in relation to his wife , Xantippe , in order to find out why she had , in fact ...
Yet with all of Socrates ' patient examination and self - exposure , I cannot recall any point in the Dialogues in which he examines his own conduct in relation to his wife , Xantippe , in order to find out why she had , in fact ...
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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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