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France's Pierre Lecomte du Noüy (rhymes roughly with dewey), a topflight biophysicist, is so convinced. Published last week was a 277-page record of his own internal "collision": Human Destiny (Longmans, Green...
...burlesque-show memory. Hirshfield was always having model trouble. For his Lion painting he tried the zoo, pictures at the public library, stuffed specimens at the American Museum of Natural History. He wound up with a cheap, toyshop lithograph, painted a lion with a tailored mane and a bland, human face that could do for a self-portrait of Hirshfield...
...First of all, this new temper is a vindication-whatever the intent of the liberals-of the Pauline-Augustinian-Calvinistic view of human nature...
...original sin which was permitted by God. Whereas for us it is made necessary by the survival in man of the ancestral memories against which he alone can fight. As the 'original sin' was nothing but the animal obedience to appetites, and the disregard of human dignity, the similarity is striking...
...private religion and that of Christians. As is common among God-seeking scientists, the Deity becomes a Hypothesis with an odd name (in this case: telefinality). Christ seems to be a man born ahead of his time and Salvation is the evolution of the human species into a superrace. Scientist du Noüy regards the second chapter of Genesis as an esoteric presentation of his own view of creation...