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 106
... produce a change . But the impress of a new personality is of a different order : through him many diffused and scattered ideas unite to produce , not other new ideas , but a man . All this is part of the natural history of man ; and it ...
... produce a change . But the impress of a new personality is of a different order : through him many diffused and scattered ideas unite to produce , not other new ideas , but a man . All this is part of the natural history of man ; and it ...
Page 191
... produce synthesis in thought , any more than an assemblage of specialized functionaries within a community will produce a whole and balanced society . Such mechanical cohesion , whether promoted arbitrarily by the state or through more ...
... produce synthesis in thought , any more than an assemblage of specialized functionaries within a community will produce a whole and balanced society . Such mechanical cohesion , whether promoted arbitrarily by the state or through more ...
Page 228
... produce an effect out of all proportion to its physical powers , just as a tiny seed - crystal , dropped into a saturate solution , may cause the whole mass to assume a similar crystalline form . Such timely intervention of a " physical ...
... produce an effect out of all proportion to its physical powers , just as a tiny seed - crystal , dropped into a saturate solution , may cause the whole mass to assume a similar crystalline form . Such timely intervention of a " physical ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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