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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Page 37
... capacity so little as two horsepower : along that line , he might have taken half a million years to effect , by selective breeding or otherwise , this tremendous change in his muscu- lar capacity . And when he had done so , he would ...
... capacity so little as two horsepower : along that line , he might have taken half a million years to effect , by selective breeding or otherwise , this tremendous change in his muscu- lar capacity . And when he had done so , he would ...
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... capacity to use language , an earlier human invention , the whole round earth would fade away more swiftly than Prospero's vision : insubstantial and dreamlike , without the words that arrest it and order it into widening patches of ...
... capacity to use language , an earlier human invention , the whole round earth would fade away more swiftly than Prospero's vision : insubstantial and dreamlike , without the words that arrest it and order it into widening patches of ...
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... capacity for struggle or divert them from their practical goals . By various combinations of these fundamental attitudes , one arrives at the almost inexhaustible richness and variety of human society , in which pure types are an ...
... capacity for struggle or divert them from their practical goals . By various combinations of these fundamental attitudes , one arrives at the almost inexhaustible richness and variety of human society , in which pure types are an ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
ORIENTATION TO LIFE | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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