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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For the renewal of life is the new drama of life . The main task of our time is to turn man himself , now a helpless mechanical puppet , into a wakeful and willing creator . 2 : CANVASS OF POSSIBILITIES The potentialities of the present ...
For the renewal of life is the new drama of life . The main task of our time is to turn man himself , now a helpless mechanical puppet , into a wakeful and willing creator . 2 : CANVASS OF POSSIBILITIES The potentialities of the present ...
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One of the classic missions of religion , accordingly , is to search for values in that part of existence which man , in his purely animal preoccupations , would turn away from , as almost all other animals incuriously turn away from ...
One of the classic missions of religion , accordingly , is to search for values in that part of existence which man , in his purely animal preoccupations , would turn away from , as almost all other animals incuriously turn away from ...
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Many of the experiences of life which one would avoid as evil , or at very least as damnably unpleasant , if one had the possibility of rejecting them , often turn out to be conditions for adequate growth . That is why those who have ...
Many of the experiences of life which one would avoid as evil , or at very least as damnably unpleasant , if one had the possibility of rejecting them , often turn out to be conditions for adequate growth . That is why those who have ...
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Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
ORIENTATION TO LIFE | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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| 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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