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 119
... impossible dream ? No. For why should we readily hail marvels like the transmutation of matter and energy , issuing out of the phy- sical world , without our admitting the possibility of equally radical departures issuing out of the ...
... impossible dream ? No. For why should we readily hail marvels like the transmutation of matter and energy , issuing out of the phy- sical world , without our admitting the possibility of equally radical departures issuing out of the ...
Page 145
... impossible to make peace with one's enemy . Here the absence of quantitative judgment has led to further debasement ; for to kill a million men is not the same as to kill a thousand men : it is precisely a thousand times worse . The ...
... impossible to make peace with one's enemy . Here the absence of quantitative judgment has led to further debasement ; for to kill a million men is not the same as to kill a thousand men : it is precisely a thousand times worse . The ...
Page 146
... impossible : at those moments , moderation itself becomes the dangerous extreme . In so far as ethics provides a sound guide to liv- ing , it must have life's own attributes : its pliability , its adaptiveness , its sensitiveness to the ...
... impossible : at those moments , moderation itself becomes the dangerous extreme . In so far as ethics provides a sound guide to liv- ing , it must have life's own attributes : its pliability , its adaptiveness , its sensitiveness to the ...
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THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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