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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are as lacking in nature as warm - blooded animals were in the days when the great reptiles alone reigned . ... must lack the ability to describe the process of human development , since it has no criterion for distinguishing arrest ...
are as lacking in nature as warm - blooded animals were in the days when the great reptiles alone reigned . ... must lack the ability to describe the process of human development , since it has no criterion for distinguishing arrest ...
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Lacking the capacity to feel , when feeling is an imperative condition for living on a human plane , we also lack the capacity for action . Those who most prided themselves on their absence of righteous anger and anxiety , when the ...
Lacking the capacity to feel , when feeling is an imperative condition for living on a human plane , we also lack the capacity for action . Those who most prided themselves on their absence of righteous anger and anxiety , when the ...
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Before they are thirty they have a sense of being caught ; and they lack both the energies and the tools to extricate themselves from the debris they have allowed to block their return to life . Deficiency of life , and because of that ...
Before they are thirty they have a sense of being caught ; and they lack both the energies and the tools to extricate themselves from the debris they have allowed to block their return to life . Deficiency of life , and because of that ...
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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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