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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Does their rarity , as one sweeps over the whole range of cosmic forces and events , make them less precious or less significant ? If his god is but the enlargement by thousands of diameters of the power , the love , the knowledge he ...
Does their rarity , as one sweeps over the whole range of cosmic forces and events , make them less precious or less significant ? If his god is but the enlargement by thousands of diameters of the power , the love , the knowledge he ...
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... and aggressive pride , which keep men apart , are at the same time bearers of cultural pollen : producers of those cultural hybrids which , Flinders Petrie long ago remarked , are no less superior in civilization than in farming .
... and aggressive pride , which keep men apart , are at the same time bearers of cultural pollen : producers of those cultural hybrids which , Flinders Petrie long ago remarked , are no less superior in civilization than in farming .
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One of a series of Utopias , all more or 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 ...
One of a series of Utopias , all more or 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 ...
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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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