The Condition of ManHarcourt, Brace & World, 1944 - 467 pages |
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Page 71
... institution . Only at the moment of formulation is an idea its very self : then it has the clarity of a Platonic ... institutions which are still strong : so the abso- lutism of the Czars , the ruthlessness of Ivan the Terrible , the ...
... institution . Only at the moment of formulation is an idea its very self : then it has the clarity of a Platonic ... institutions which are still strong : so the abso- lutism of the Czars , the ruthlessness of Ivan the Terrible , the ...
Page 266
... institutions that mankind could discard and leave behind ; and unlike le Roy , they could not conceive that the direction of history might change . Progress thus became an automatic denial of the past . " Reverse the usual practice ...
... institutions that mankind could discard and leave behind ; and unlike le Roy , they could not conceive that the direction of history might change . Progress thus became an automatic denial of the past . " Reverse the usual practice ...
Page 415
... institutions and organizations running in their accustomed grooves , but how to keep life itself running , with or without the aid of these institutions , our problem immediately clarifies itself . There is no wealth , as Ruskin said ...
... institutions and organizations running in their accustomed grooves , but how to keep life itself running , with or without the aid of these institutions , our problem immediately clarifies itself . There is no wealth , as Ruskin said ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
PRELUDE TO AN ERA | 17 |
THE PRIMACY OF THE PERSON | 52 |
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