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Faith for Living by Lewis Mumford | Goodreads

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Published in 1940, with Europe already enmeshed in war …

Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews 47 reviews3 followers Read August 29, 2025 Our “immaterial” heritage is not without substance: but it needs only a minimum of baggage to go on with its journey. A thousand court-rooms may be destroyed; yet all is saved if only the books of law remain and the traditions are handed on from mouth to mouth; a thousand buildings may be destroyed by fire or incendiary bombs or sheer iconoclasm, but if a few fragments of painting and sculpture remain, and a saving remnant of artists, life will go on again. So with science: so with all the other arts. The material…

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