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 130
... purposes ? There is but a short step from such moral perversion to rabid madness . Only a civilization that had everywhere extirpated its living sense of good and evil could make such a fatal mistake . 3 : THE CASE FOR PURPOSE " What is ...
... purposes ? There is but a short step from such moral perversion to rabid madness . Only a civilization that had everywhere extirpated its living sense of good and evil could make such a fatal mistake . 3 : THE CASE FOR PURPOSE " What is ...
Page 131
... purpose , in terms of eventual life . While accident occurs throughout nature , and statistical order largely governs the physical world , all manifestations of life bear evidence of a sustaining and widening purpose : a purpose that ...
... purpose , in terms of eventual life . While accident occurs throughout nature , and statistical order largely governs the physical world , all manifestations of life bear evidence of a sustaining and widening purpose : a purpose that ...
Page 137
... purpose of the book . Before the book is finished that sentence may be deleted ; yet it will , by having once served as a link in the chain of argument , have per- formed a genuine purpose , even though it disappears : it would still ...
... purpose of the book . Before the book is finished that sentence may be deleted ; yet it will , by having once served as a link in the chain of argument , have per- formed a genuine purpose , even though it disappears : it would still ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
ORIENTATION TO LIFE | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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