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 93
... invention , operated only at rare intervals and with great slowness : tens of thousands of years passed before the Old Stone Age , with its hunting economy , gave place to the New Stone Age , marked by the domestication of animals and ...
... invention , operated only at rare intervals and with great slowness : tens of thousands of years passed before the Old Stone Age , with its hunting economy , gave place to the New Stone Age , marked by the domestication of animals and ...
Page 134
... invention of airplanes and motor cars , the monk , Roger Bacon , predicted these mechanical contrivances : from his knowledge of processes at work in himself , he was able to anticipate " the next development of man . " Glanvill , in ...
... invention of airplanes and motor cars , the monk , Roger Bacon , predicted these mechanical contrivances : from his knowledge of processes at work in himself , he was able to anticipate " the next development of man . " Glanvill , in ...
Page 238
... invention of improved mechanical methods of travel and transportation and communication created , for the first time in history , an all - embracing community . With the further development in the twentieth century of the telephone and ...
... invention of improved mechanical methods of travel and transportation and communication created , for the first time in history , an all - embracing community . With the further development in the twentieth century of the telephone and ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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