Culture and restraint
By: by Hugh Black.
Publisher: F.H. Revell
Published: 1901
Place of publication: New York; Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Asceticism; Hedonism
Notes: First published 1901.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Zion against Greece; title: the problem stated; title: The aesthetic ideal; title: culture; title: Defects of the aesthetic ideal; title: Culture as religion; title: The perfect man; title: The ascetic ideal; title: restraint; title: The origin and growth of asceticism; title: The failure of the ascetic ideal; title: A mediaeval conception of sainthood; title: The physical treatment of the spiritual life; title: The teaching of Jesus on asceticism; title: The Christian solution.