Culture and restraint
By: by Hugh Black.
Publisher: F. H. Revell Company
Published: 1909
Place of publication: New York; Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Asceticism; Hedonism
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.