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Culture and restraint

Hugh Black
Print Book, English, ©1901
F.H. Revell, New York, ©1901
History
350 pages ; 22 cm
17778564
Introduction
Zion against Greece
the problem stated
The aesthetic ideal
culture
Defects of the aesthetic ideal
Culture as religion
The perfect man
The ascetic ideal
restraint
The origin and growth of asceticism
The failure of the ascetic ideal
A mediaeval conception of sainthood
The physical treatment of the spiritual life
The teaching of Jesus on asceticism
The Christian solution
Originally published 1901