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...heaven above and earth below embraced in one divine economy. But the aggressive humanism of the Renaissance and the mechanistic visions of the scientific revolution shattered that unified cosmos. For more than three centuries, Western civilization has lived instead in a split-level universe conceived by the French philosopher René Descartes. A religious man, but also a rationalist, Descartes contended that man could demonstrate truth only about a world he could measure. The world of spirit was beyond such measurement, a matter of faith and intuition, not truth. Descartes became a self-fulfilling prophet. The spiritual world was left...
First Foray. If anything, the election results showed that French voters want new faces. Two members of Pompidou's government, Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann, 61, and Justice Minister René Pleven, 71, were turned out of once safe districts. Fully 174 of last week's winners are entering the Assembly for the first time; 100 of them are making their first foray into politics. Not one of the new Gaullist Deputies wears the rosette of De Gaulle's Resistance movement...
CHARLES C. REN JR. Sebastopol, Calif. Down on the Farm Prices...
...defender was René Dubos, distinguished Rockefeller University microbiologist, elder statesman of science and author (A God Within, So Human an Animal). In a major address entitled "Humanizing the Earth," Dubos, 71, disputed one of the fashionable credos of contemporary environmentalists: that any human interference with nature is in itself undesirable. In other words, Dubos flatly disagreed with Barry Commoner's so-called fourth law of ecology: "Nature knows best." On the contrary, Dubos insisted, nature does not always know best. It is, in fact, often "shortsighted." To prove his point, he cited not only such major natural calamities...
...Died. René Mayer, 77, ubiquitous Cabinet minister in the postwar governments of France and its Premier for four months in 1953; in Paris. A businessman (railroads) turned politician. Mayer fled to Algiers in 1943. As a member of the Radical Socialists in the postwar French Assembly, he proved himself a hard-headed technician capable of self-preservation during the Fourth Republic's era of musical-chair governments. In 1955, Mayer was named president of the European Coal and Steel Community, which eventually evolved into the Common Market...