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...almost any measure, Los Angeles Lawyer Jim Lorenz had every reason to be content. The son of an affluent Dayton, Ohio, architect, he had sailed through Harvard Law School with honors and social ease. He was admitted to the California bar in 1965, and be came a shining young legal light at O'Melveny & Myers, Los Angeles' largest law firm. But he was troubled. "I was just making more secure the people who already had security. It was like walking on wet sand and leaving no footprints...
...fact is that if violence is not innate, it is a basic component of human behavior. The German naturalist Konrad Lorenz believes that, unlike other carnivores, man did not at an early stage develop inhibitions against killing members of his own species-because he was too weak. As he developed weapons, he learned to kill, and he also learned moral restraints, but these never penetrated far enough. Writes Lorenz: "The deep emotional layers of our personality simply do not register the fact that the cocking of a forefinger to release a shot tears the entrails of another...
...similar manner, he said, genetic knowledge tells an organism whether its environmental adaptation has succeeded or failed. "Finding the exact source of this knowledge is one of the nicest bits of detective work we have to do," Lorenz commented...
...Lorenz attacked narrow approaches to learning. "Any system has parts which are as different from the whole as a carburetor is from a car," he said...
Also Herbert Wechsler, Stone Professor of Law at Columbia; Gerard Piel '37, publisher of Scientific American; Lincoln Gordon '33, new president of Johns Hopkins; Konrad Lorenz, author of on Aggression; Meyer Schapiro, Columbia art historian completing his year as Charles Eliot Norton Visiting Professor of Poetry; Sen. Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass.); Roy Orval Greep, former dean of the School of Dental Medicine and now head of the Med School's Reproduction Center...