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...UNEXPECTED UNIVERSE, by Loren Eiseley. A paean to the possibilities of man in an age of the machine by the anthropolater and author of The Immense Journey and The Mind as Nature...
...UNEXPECTED UNIVERSE, by Loren Eiseley. A paean to the possibilities of man in an age of the machine by the an-thropolater, humanist and author of The Immense Journey and The Mind as Nature...
...Eiseley fights a purely scientific view of man with the fury of an underground resistance fighter. "Each one of us," he writes in a cry from the heart, "is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born...
...anything, science has made man more of a mystery to himself. For in conquering the universe, says Eiseley, man has got curiously out of touch with it: "His march is away from his origins . . . From the solitude of the wood he has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart." Once or twice he seems on the verge of promulgating an Eiseley law: The more science expands the universe, the more it shrinks...
...technological future goes, Eiseley has little doubt that the standard rule of civilization will continue to apply: "Solutions to problems create problems." As if it were perverse salvation, he clings to a classically tragic vision of life. It is a dark journey from birth to death, and nothing can change that...