Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...human being wrote a single word of the 764-page book just published by the University Press. It was all done by a machine...
Dissociated Man. His main interest is "the unification of science, and the relation of a synthesis of scientific knowledge to the present human situation...
...When a great ideal has ceased to illuminate the human understanding and has therefore lost its power, man has no choice but to search afresh for some element in the processes of the real world with which he can identify himself...
Black & White Confusion. Author Whyte considers the years between 1914 and 1944 another Thirty Years' War. "For thirty years the human mind has suffered confusion, myriads of lives have suffered premature disaster, and the necessities of war still dominate life and thought. Yet this half-century has not been a monotone of evil, but a black and white confusion, bewilderingly paradoxical until beneath its contrasts the underlying transformation is recognized. On the one hand there has been ... a tremendous sense of new opportunities of ... material security, of personal readjustment, of love relieved from fear - a sense of the possibility...
...freed of the sense of guilt which comes from the lack of balance between Christian idealism and the chaotic contemporary world, equally free of the sadistic drives of the fascist, consciously making himself a part of the life of his community, and visualizing himself according to the norm of human life at this time-such, crudely, is the image of the next development of man that Author Whyte projects with great subtlety and his own kind of eloquence...