EVOLUTION AND HUMAN DESTINY 



ing desirous of keeping up with this broadening 

 stream, are becoming tremendous. Yet, it is clear that 

 all branches of knowledge are inter-related and that a 

 proper understanding of these inter-relationships is 

 essential for an adequate comprehension of the world 

 we live in. It is indeed surprising, considering the un- 

 avoidable compartmentalization of the sciences, how 

 much progress is yet being made. How this accelerating 

 scientific advance is possible despite the limitations of 

 the capacities of individual human beings, is one of the 

 insights that will grow out of the material presented in 

 this book. 



What the author is attempting to accomplish in this 

 treatise is therefore the following: 



"To synthesize certain presently known, but 

 heretofore uncorrelated facts, phenomena and re- 

 lationships into a self-consistent unifying struc- 

 ture." 



The subject dealt with is the evolution of living 

 matter in general and the development of man and 

 human society in particular. In order to make the con- 

 tents of this book accessible to as large a number of 

 thinking men and women as is possible, only reason- 

 ably well established scientific findings and theories 

 have been used. 



While none of the individual conclusions growing 

 out of this synthesis have been entirely unknown, they 

 have in many cases been little more than speculative 



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