Word: buts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jesuit Teilhard wrote The Phenomenon of Man as a scientist; he was a top-ranking paleontologist and one of the discoverers of Peking Man. But as a Roman Catholic priest, he submitted to the prohibition of his church against publishing his writings or teaching his ideas. Until his death at...
Up Through the Ooze. Scientist Teilhard believes in evolution, not just as a matter of accepting Darwin; evolution for him is the mystical key to existence, the movement of the universe toward God. But God does not appear in Teilhard's book until the very end, and then under...
In the beginning is matter. Matter is "atomic" in that it exhibits plurality, to the microscope, the telescope or the naked eye-"in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead." Matter also exhibits unity...
This bloody, teeming struggle upwards -"despite all the waste and ferocity, all the mystery and scandal it involves"-is a single gigantic organism moving in one direction: toward more consciousness. But evolution does not stop with consciousness. "In one well-marked region at the heart of the mammals, where the...
"Early morning in the universe," says Narrator Kerouac at the outset, by way of scene setting. On the screen, a beautiful but weary woman opens the shutters of her pad. (She is played by Delphine Youngerman, who calls herself Beltiane.) Outside is Manhattan's Bowery; inside are her little...