Revival: Religion and the Sciences of Life (1934) - 9781138556980

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Revival: Religion and the Sciences of Life (1934)With Other Essays and Allied Topics\nAuthor(s): McDougall William\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138556980, 978-1138556980\nSynopsis\nIn author's own words\n\nIn selecting these essays I have been guided partly by the desire to present matter likely to be of interest to the general reader; but also I have aimed at a certain unity of topic and argument, a unity indicated by the title of the volume. \n\nA brief summary may help the reader to grasp that unity and to follow the somewhat scattered argument. Man, I contend, is more than a machine, and more than a mirror that reflects the world about him. He is an active being with power to direct his strivings towards ideal goals; and there is ground for belief that those goals are neither wholly illusory nor wholly unattainable. There is no novelty about this view; but there is novelty in the argument by which the con.