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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...
Unitary Thought. The development that Author Whyte now foresees is that which he calls unitary man. Marx saw man as part of an economic process; Freud saw man as the creature of his sexual drives. The whole man, the complete man, living in harmony with nature, of which he recognizes himself to be a conscious part, 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...
...image is necessarily dim. Unitary man, conceiving himself a part of nature, rejoices in it, and gives himself unhesitatingly to life, with no thought of the survival of his own immortal soul. Of Christianity, humanism, and Marxism, he automatically preserves whatever is proper to his nature. When Author Whyte wrote the book he thought that Russia had perhaps gone farthest in the direction of a unitary society. Since that time, he says in the preface, he has concluded differently: "World order implies a unity tolerant of diversity; truth, justice, and the welfare of man depend on individuals with the courage...
...Christian religion their assurance of personal survival." The humanists must likewise give up their emphasis on the subjective aspects of personality. He believes that mankind is at the greatest opportunity in its history. "The species can now . . . realize unity without loss of diversity or differentiation." The opportunity Author Whyte likens to that of a man & woman whose love remains in suspense until the first word is spoken...
Ideas in the Air. The arresting nature of Lancelot Whyte's thought, his curious, almost hypnotic use of language, almost as if he regarded words as mathematical symbols, may give readers something of the sense of wonder that came to the first readers of Emerson. Like Emerson, he releases ideas like a man startling a flock of pigeons into...