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 46
... primitive man there was far less of a gap between waking conscious- ness and sleeping consciousness than there now is . Against the cur- rent tendency to over - value the externalized and the objective , John Butler Yeats ' words are a ...
... primitive man there was far less of a gap between waking conscious- ness and sleeping consciousness than there now is . Against the cur- rent tendency to over - value the externalized and the objective , John Butler Yeats ' words are a ...
Page 47
... primitive settles back into a dreamful lethargy ; and his subjective world must often have loomed far larger than the visible environment . Plainly , we know no more about the origin of the dream than we do of the origins of language ...
... primitive settles back into a dreamful lethargy ; and his subjective world must often have loomed far larger than the visible environment . Plainly , we know no more about the origin of the dream than we do of the origins of language ...
Page 82
... primitive and repulsive act , a form of devil worship as Herbert Spen- cer put it : how infantile to offer one's God seasonal fruits and liba- tions , or present one's precious child to the fiery furnace of Moloch ! Those who live , as ...
... primitive and repulsive act , a form of devil worship as Herbert Spen- cer put it : how infantile to offer one's God seasonal fruits and liba- tions , or present one's precious child to the fiery furnace of Moloch ! Those who live , as ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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achieved action activities animal balance become biological biological type bring Buddhism capable capacity century Christian civilization concept consciousness cosmic create creative creature culture death detachment dionysian discipline disintegration divine doctrine dominant drama dream dynamic equilibrium effort elements emergence energy environment essential ethical evil existence experience external fact forces functions further goal growth habits Herman Melville higher Hindu Hinduism human personality ical ideal impulses inner insight interpretation invention isolationism living man's Marxism means mechanical ment merely mind modern moral nature once one's organic original Patrick Geddes pattern perhaps philosophy physical Plato possible potentialities practice present present philosophy primitive produce psychodrama purpose rational religion religious renewal response role romanticism sacrifice Schweitzer seek self-fabrication sense single Singular Points social society Socrates spirit super-ego survival symbols teleology tion totalitarian Toynbee transformation universal values whole York