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 65
... less precious or less significant ? If his god is but the enlargement by thousands of diameters of the power , the love , the knowledge he has developed through his own evolution , is that divine quality itself less real because of this ...
... less precious or less significant ? If his god is but the enlargement by thousands of diameters of the power , the love , the knowledge he has developed through his own evolution , is that divine quality itself less real because of this ...
Page 176
... less confident of its high intentions , less set on its special ends , would have produced . Or take an even better case , none the worse for being real : the child- hood of Mary Everest , that extraordinary woman who eventually be ...
... less confident of its high intentions , less set on its special ends , would have produced . Or take an even better case , none the worse for being real : the child- hood of Mary Everest , that extraordinary woman who eventually be ...
Page 316
... less similar in content because of the stress Wells laid on organization , administration and mechanical invention , which express the best of the liberal - socialist nineteenth century ideals though tainted by a tend- ency toward ...
... less similar in content because of the stress Wells laid on organization , administration and mechanical invention , which express the best of the liberal - socialist nineteenth century ideals though tainted by a tend- ency toward ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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