Faith for living

Mumford, Lewis. Faith for Living. First Edition. New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1940. 21cm x 14cm. 333 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. The volume itself in very good condition. The dustjacket with considerable wear to the extremities. Endpaper signed by preowner. Includes for Example: The Betrayal of Man/ No Flight from the Wrath to Come/ Inner Decay Comes First/ The Illusion of Security/ The Unearned Increment of Religion/ The Threefold Cult of Power/ Manufacturing Soldiers and Robots/ The Primitive and the Personal/ Corruption of the Opposition/ New Wars of Religion/ The Disintegration of Liberalism/ Outer Assault: Inner Betrayal/ Humanitarianism and Power/ The Immaturity of the Mature/ The Undermining of Personality/ The Evilness of Evil/ Failure to Face Ultimate Issues/ Force, Grace and Reason/ Coercion and Compromise/ The Dread of the Emotions/ The Curse of Optimism/ The Betrayal of Liberalism/ Sources of Tradition/ Love Among the Ruins/Reversal of Human Values/ The De-moralization of Economics/ Capitalism Connives at Suicide/ Temptations of the Churches/ Counsel in a Time of Troubles/ The National Being/ The Challenge of Non-Euclidean Politics/ Prospects for Survival/ Framework of Faith/ Creating and Sharing Values/ Life is Better than Utopia/ The Needs of the Living/ Re-birth of the Family/ Culture of the Family/ Roots in the Region/ Growth of the Person/ Discipline of Work/ Social Tempering at Self/ Behold the Man!/ The Economics of Sacrifice/ The Politics of Sacrifice etc. The need for this book was prompted, not so much by the military debacles that took place in the spring of 1940, as by the much longer and more isidious moral disintegrations that gave an opening to the forces of barbarism. The political, economic and military collapse was preceded by a dissolution of values: this has been as marked in the United States as in Europe. Our prevailing philosophy of ..