Volume 30, Number 3 · March 3, 1983
Utopia (Limited)
By Stephen Jay Gould
The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture
by Fritjof Capra
Simon and Schuster, 464 pp., $17.50
In his great work An American Dilemma (1944), Gunnar Myrdal praised the effort made by 'a handful of social and biological scientists' to combat racism and hereditarianism—cultural prejudices once so pervasive that white intellectuals throughout the world had portrayed the inferiority of blacks as a self-evident truth. Myrdal then wondered what more general biases might be so deep and unquestioned that we cannot even recognize them:
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