Spencer Heath Archive

Item 958

Notes on Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization, page 372 etc. Uncertain if these are quotes.

1934?

Original -> 947

 

 

 

 

We can now see plainly that power, work, regularity, are adequate principles of action only when they cooperate with a human scheme of living — must fit into the larger order of life itself. … We must build up more and more organic centers of faith and action in the arts of society, discipline of the personality, development of the arts of communication and expression, hygiene of the personality.

… “There is no wealth but life.” (Ruskin)

 

Mechanical effort: Cultural results

 

Page 399/ Success in life will be judged by the non-consumable goods we enjoy, biological fulfillments as loves and mates, personal fulfillment in thinking and feeling. Distinction in the personality, not in the size of the house — Keen perceptions, sensitive emotional responses.  … Every kind of possession except self-possession.