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 71
... reason and justice . If the God who permitted the slaughter of the innocent in the Lisbon earthquake shocked Voltaire , what would he have said to the God who permitted his creatures to invent the insane horrors of Buchenwald and ...
... reason and justice . If the God who permitted the slaughter of the innocent in the Lisbon earthquake shocked Voltaire , what would he have said to the God who permitted his creatures to invent the insane horrors of Buchenwald and ...
Page 195
... reason to seek balance and universality , the need to remove blockages to human growth and development would be sufficient to justify it . One of the reasons for the failure of the universal religions , per- haps , to achieve the wide ...
... reason to seek balance and universality , the need to remove blockages to human growth and development would be sufficient to justify it . One of the reasons for the failure of the universal religions , per- haps , to achieve the wide ...
Page 265
... reason of all . To live wisely , each of us must lead a twofold life . We must live once in the actual world , and ... reasons perhaps for the deep inner joy and perpet- 1 ually self - renewing life of the great painters . THE WAY AND ...
... reason of all . To live wisely , each of us must lead a twofold life . We must live once in the actual world , and ... reasons perhaps for the deep inner joy and perpet- 1 ually self - renewing life of the great painters . THE WAY AND ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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