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. |
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... singular points and less decisive changes . How could conventional modern scholars describe a change that takes place , in the first instance , in a single individual , not in a mass : above all an interior change not verified by ...
... singular points and less decisive changes . How could conventional modern scholars describe a change that takes place , in the first instance , in a single individual , not in a mass : above all an interior change not verified by ...
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... singular points : the higher the rank , the more of them . At these points , influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance . All great results ...
... singular points : the higher the rank , the more of them . At these points , influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance . All great results ...
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... Singular Points , 227 Doctrine of the Whole , 223-226 Doctrines , Christian , 25 Dogma , communist , 110 Dogmatic claims , irrational , 113 Domestic responsibilities , 283 Don Quixote , 194 Dostoyevsky , Fyodor , 60 , 152 , 262 , 269 ...
... Singular Points , 227 Doctrine of the Whole , 223-226 Doctrines , Christian , 25 Dogma , communist , 110 Dogmatic claims , irrational , 113 Domestic responsibilities , 283 Don Quixote , 194 Dostoyevsky , Fyodor , 60 , 152 , 262 , 269 ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
The Emergence of the Divine | 68 |
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