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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... Herman Melville : a novel whose sub - title , The Ambiguities , underlines the discoveries that Melville himself made in the very course of writing it , and embodied in the paper attributed to the Transcendental philosopher , Plotinus ...
... Herman Melville : a novel whose sub - title , The Ambiguities , underlines the discoveries that Melville himself made in the very course of writing it , and embodied in the paper attributed to the Transcendental philosopher , Plotinus ...
Page 166
... Melville observes , produces a few rare souls who try to guide their lives by heavenly time , and seek to make that ... Herman Melville drew the correct conclusions . In his endeavor to confound the morality of prudence , exemplified by ...
... Melville observes , produces a few rare souls who try to guide their lives by heavenly time , and seek to make that ... Herman Melville drew the correct conclusions . In his endeavor to confound the morality of prudence , exemplified by ...
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... Herman Melville quite rightly called the whaling ship he sailed on his Harvard College , indeed one may well trace to his long meditations on the maintop much of the originality of vision he brought into the world . Plainly a habit of ...
... Herman Melville quite rightly called the whaling ship he sailed on his Harvard College , indeed one may well trace to his long meditations on the maintop much of the originality of vision he brought into the world . Plainly a habit of ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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