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...this most violent civilization in history. Force is the specific doctrine of the century's two characteristic political manifestations-Communism and Fascism. Force, in the form of history's two greatest wars, has been the century's most ineffaceable experience. Force, in the form of the atom bomb, reduced the most complicated and recondite efforts of man's mind to the mechanism of an infernal machine...
Only last Christmas, the German armies in their last great lunge had bulged through the Allied lines in Belgium, and it looked as if they could not be halted short of Antwerp. Since then Germany had been smashed to pieces, Japan had bowed itself into national nonentity, the atom bomb had been dropped. The bomb that obliterated Hiroshima had blown apart man's conscience and his sense of civilized security. For the first time in history man, who still could not inform with life one submicroscopic particle of matter, found within his grasp the power to destroy creation...
Only two topical books, General Marshall's Report-The Winning of the War in Europe and the Pacific and Professor Henry de Wolf Smyth's Atomic Energy for Military Purposes (popularly known as the Smyth Report on the atom bomb) measured up at all to the year's massive events. And in a field not commonly of concern to laymen, there appeared, not by plan, but apparently in response to a growing human need, a swatch of books on philosophy, religion and related subjects...
...TIME, Dec. 3) and Norman Cousins' Modern Man Is Obsolete. Professor Orton's book sought to trace the decomposition of liberalism through the loss of its spiritual content. Author Cousins' 59-page essay is written with a kind of urgency less eloquent than headlong. When the atom bomb vaporized Hiroshima, he says, it rendered obsolete "every aspect of man's activities, from machines to morals, from physics to philosophy, from politics to poetry." If man does not wish to become extinct as well as obsolete, he must do something at once. What he must do, cries...