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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So instead of producing a new gain of time and energy for the consummations of life , our uncontrolled mechanization has ... In the end , such a civilization can produce only a mass man : incapable of choice , incapable of spontaneous ...
So instead of producing a new gain of time and energy for the consummations of life , our uncontrolled mechanization has ... In the end , such a civilization can produce only a mass man : incapable of choice , incapable of spontaneous ...
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Such an encyclopedic massing of specialisms - which H. G. Wells tirelessly advocated - will not produce synthesis in thought , any more than an assemblage of specialized functionaries within a community will produce a whole and balanced ...
Such an encyclopedic massing of specialisms - which H. G. Wells tirelessly advocated - will not produce synthesis in thought , any more than an assemblage of specialized functionaries within a community will produce a whole and balanced ...
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At such a pass , the human personality may 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 ...
At such a pass , the human personality may 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 ...
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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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