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is geared to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. A spiritual man finds himself exhausted and deadened and debased by the constant noise of machines and loudspeakers, the dead air and the glaring lights of offices and shops, the everlasting suggestion of advertising and propaganda.

Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions a spiritual man finds himself exhausted and deadened and debased by the constant noise of machines and loudspeakers, the dead air and the glaring lights of offices and shops, the everlasting suggestion of advertising and propaganda. The whole mechanism of modern life is geared for a flight from God and from the spirit into the wilderness of neurosis. Thomas Merton

is regulated according to the mathematical time divisions of the clock, no longer depend, as the country once was, on the day, season, or weather.

F34 Ancient town have extended beyond all measure into such urban monsters as London, Paris, Berlin, or New York. The rhythms of city life, regulated according to the mathematical time divisions of the clock, no longer depend on day, season, or weather. Although the country goes on conditioning the city, it no longer exerts a determining influence. On the contrary, the country is influenced more and more by city. Disappearing cultural peasant patterns provide subject matter only for museums and folkloric science and art. The Effects of City Life upon Spiritual Life

is that which brings to fruition the seeds of civilization which lie in every culture.

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition. Susanne Katherine Langer

is lonely --- a great city, a great solitude

is lonely --- A great city, a great solitude.

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city life