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 7
... practice tyranny and com- pulsion in the most wanton fashion must nevertheless do so under the slogan of ... practices , lies such an abundance of life as no commonwealth or empire , however powerful , ever possessed . But this ...
... practice tyranny and com- pulsion in the most wanton fashion must nevertheless do so under the slogan of ... practices , lies such an abundance of life as no commonwealth or empire , however powerful , ever possessed . But this ...
Page 84
... practice of sacrifice and the discipline of detachment can man accept , without overwhelming despair , the facts of his own cor- ruptibility and death . When man has not schooled himself by such practices , when he fosters in himself ...
... practice of sacrifice and the discipline of detachment can man accept , without overwhelming despair , the facts of his own cor- ruptibility and death . When man has not schooled himself by such practices , when he fosters in himself ...
Page 266
... practice without preparation , and without being allowed the preliminary trials , the failures and botches , that are essential for the training of a mere be- ginner . In life , we must begin to give a public performance before we have ...
... practice without preparation , and without being allowed the preliminary trials , the failures and botches , that are essential for the training of a mere be- ginner . In life , we must begin to give a public performance before we have ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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