{"id":37314,"date":"2013-12-07T23:56:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T05:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=37314"},"modified":"2021-06-03T09:24:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T14:24:33","slug":"manvotional-mans-chief-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/character\/manhood\/manvotional-mans-chief-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Manvotional: Man&#8217;s Chief Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37318 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/\/2013\/12\/bridge1.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage man walking across wooden rickety bridge over river.\" width=\"500\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bridge1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bridge1-320x319.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>From <em>Faith for Living<\/em>, 1940<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> By Lewis Mumford<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Man&#8217;s chief purpose&#8230;is the creation and preservation of values, that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in this is what gives significance, ultimately, to the individual human life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The individual contribution, the work of any single generation, is infinitesimal; the power and glory belong to human society at large, and are the long result of selection, conservation, sacrifice, creation, and renewal &#8212; the outcome of endless brave efforts to conserve values and ideas, and to hand them on to posterity, along with physical life itself. Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back into an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Faith for Living, 1940 By Lewis Mumford Man&#8217;s chief purpose&#8230;is the creation and preservation of values, that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in this is what gives significance, ultimately, to the individual human life&#8230; The individual contribution, the work of any single generation, is infinitesimal; the power and glory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[502,42272],"tags":[42295],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-37314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-character","category-manhood","tag-manvotionals"],"featured_image_urls":{"large":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bridge1-500x280.jpg","aom":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bridge1-372x230.jpg","reactor-320":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bridge1-320x319.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37314"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126275,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37314\/revisions\/126275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37314"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=37314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}