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The Organi^jng Drive 

 of Evolution 



Man is an evolving tip of a cosmic process— a complex, 

 sentient expression of an evolution that began as an energy- 

 ripple in the underlying space-time unity. It is man's priv- 

 ilege for a moment, however ephemeral, to look back w^ith 

 some understanding on the long and hazardous way he has 

 traveled, a way that has led through the evolution of the 

 universe, from subatomic mass-energy forces to the four- 

 dimensional continuum which progressively reveals itself as 

 the spiral galaxy, the sun and the earth, amoeba and man. 



It was Albert Einstein who gave us in his unified field the- 

 ory the tentative support of science for the concept of a 

 coalescing unity of all the basic phenomena of the physical 

 universe. Einstein saw that matter and energy are one, but 

 it was Giordano Bruno in the sixteenth century who was the 

 first of the modems to think of mind and nature as one, on 

 the basis of the unity and universality of substance. Bruno 

 paid for his boldness by being burned alive at the order of 

 the Roman Inquisition— killed "as mercifully as possible 

 and without the shedding of blood." With his very great 

 imagination, Bruno was able to take hold of the results of 

 the early sciences of the Renaissance and combine them into 

 a complete system of the universe, a system surprisingly 



