The Condition of ManHarcourt, Brace & World, 1944 - 467 pages |
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Page 220
... active , creative elements in a community's life : they served to inflate the ego of a class and to give it unmistakable symbols of its supremacy . A gourmandizing habit of mind , the habit of craving sensations and diver- sions , came ...
... active , creative elements in a community's life : they served to inflate the ego of a class and to give it unmistakable symbols of its supremacy . A gourmandizing habit of mind , the habit of craving sensations and diver- sions , came ...
Page 228
... active collaboration ; that collaboration might turn into active corruption . For there is a real danger when one fights fire with fire : the direction of the wind may change and the fire escape one's neatly laid plans for control ...
... active collaboration ; that collaboration might turn into active corruption . For there is a real danger when one fights fire with fire : the direction of the wind may change and the fire escape one's neatly laid plans for control ...
Page 368
... active barbarians in our society were aided by the passive barbarians , who had lost their hold on central human values and who saw no reason to risk pain or death in behalf of human ideals - for ideals that had become empty words ...
... active barbarians in our society were aided by the passive barbarians , who had lost their hold on central human values and who saw no reason to risk pain or death in behalf of human ideals - for ideals that had become empty words ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
PRELUDE TO AN ERA | 17 |
THE PRIMACY OF THE PERSON | 52 |
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