Volume 4, Number 2 · February 25, 1965
Where Do We Go From Here?
By J. Bronowski
Continuities in Cultural Evolution
by Margaret Mead
Yale, 471 pp., $8.50
The Future of Man
by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Harper & Row, 319 pp., $5.00
It is evident that we are living in a cultural reformation: a harsh and perhaps disruptive movement in which we are all engaged. The fabric of western culture, its tangled skein of social habits, artifacts, and values, is being pulled apart and made over—by us. We have set going the headlong changes in conduct and belief which now fill us with questions. Is there a single direction in these changes? Is there, in particular, an imaginative direction in the arts and sciences which points the way for a future culture? How shall we educate fresh generations, either to follow the changes or to lead them? What is the future of man? And is there any point in our wanting that future to conform to our own conception of man?
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