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...BEGAN IN BABEL (444 pp.)-Herbert Wendt-Houghton Mifflin...
...never been so busy studying himself-on the couch and in the laboratory, in ancient ruins and suburban rumpus rooms. Sociologists make bestsellers out of the abuses of the present, archaeologists fashion books-of-the-month out of the uses of the past, and German Writer Herbert Wendt, who has popularized natural science and prehistory in three previous books, now turns his hand to ethnology...
PHILLIP J. WENDT Dover...
...destroy man. His ark is the archive in which he stores the species and records their curious lore; in recent years, many a neo-Noah has splashed a bright coat of paint on his scholarly scow and invited the general public along for the ride. Germany's Herbert Wendt (In Search of Adam) is a skillful skipper for this sort of trip, and he brings his passengers home with their intellectual pockets full of odd and fascinating information about almost everything from the housecat to the hoolock...
Like many popular zoologists, the author is sometimes tempted to play the Barnum of biology, and then he runs an occupational risk: to demonstrate that nature is not merely a catalogue of forms, he is tempted to set it up as a sideshow of freaks. Naturalist Wendt is preserved from this pitfall by his almost religious feeling for the mystery of life and its stupendous labor of evolution-a feeling perhaps most plainly and profoundly expressed by Spinoza: "The more man understands individual objects, the more he understands...