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INDEX
A
abbeys, English destruction
of, 101
Absaroka range, 120
acrasin, 54
Africa, contrasted with South
America, 43
agricultural civilization, rise
of, 65, 66
alienation, between the
generations, 89, 109, 132
Akhenaton, 101
Alpha Centauri, 128, 153
Apollo 11, 26
Apollo 12, cost of, 89
Apollo 13, homeward voyage
of, 156
Athens, 11
atom, primordial, 34-36
Australia, laboratory of
evolution, 42 , 44
a marsupial world, 42
Australian aborigines, cultural
conservatism of, 60-61
axial religions, 145-149,152,155
B
Bacon, Francis, 94
herald of scientific method,
68
learning as way of
enlightened life, 69
vision of future created by
science, 68
bats, 55, 56
Bear, constellation of, 130
Beau, 38-40
Benedict, Ruth, 104
Bernard, Claude, 47, 49
Big Bone Lick, 12
biological novelty, recognition
of, 14-17
blackout, New York City, 82
Blake, William, 119-120, 124
brain:
evades specialization, 19-2 I
increase in size during Ice
Age time, 142
role of in generating
improbabilities, 20
Bruno, Giordano, 86
Buddha, saying of, 81
Buddhism, 77
C
Campbell, Joseph, 110
Carthage, 101
causality, 107
Christ, Jesus, 147
Christian calendar, attempt to
eliminate, 101
Christianity, 132
civilization, energy in, 132
civilizations:
possibility of others in the
cosmos, 78, 79
resemblance to human
personality, 104
Clark, Captain William, 12
Clarke, Arthur, 55
Cocteau, Jean, 119, 128
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,
61, 62
collective man, encounters
himself, 139, 140
Confucius, 147
Conklin, H. C., 58
continental divide, 13
contingency, multiplication
of, 106
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 40
cortex, human, 141, 145, 154
cosmos, extent of, 32-38
Cree Indians, 57
cultural acceleration, 22
culture, a second world
projected in the human
mind, 142, 144, 145, 150,
151, 154, 155
cyborgs, 79-82, 125
cyprinodont fish, 119-120
D
damnatio memoriae, 100-101,
109, 111
Darwin, Charles, 14, 18, 23,78
Decline of the West, The, 84
dispersion, value of, 81
displacement, linguistic, 144
Donne, John, 49
E
earth, as unique in solar
system, 152.
eclipse, solar, of 1970, 70
electron microscope, 88
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 124,
126, 155
energy, modern man's
consumption of, 63, 64
erosion, geological, 13
ethics, extended to the world
of nature, 155
evolution:
exosomatic, 80, 82
in South America and in
Australia, 42-44
irreversibility of, 44
wounds of, 154
extinction, human, 79
eye, bifocal adjustment of,
119-120
F
Faust, 85, 134
Faustian culture, Spenglerian
conception of, 84, 85
Forbes, R. J., 56, 58
Fremont, John Charles, 13
Freud, Sigmund, 97
G
Galaxies, outer, 35
Galilei, Galileo, 40
Garrett, Garer, 76
geological time, perception of,
13, 14
Glanvill, Joseph, 62, 63, 69
Gold, Thomas, theory of, 26-27
good shepherds, time of the,
148, 149
Gothic cathedrals, 84, 85
Greeks, 132
green revolution, 106
Gregory, William King, 42
H
Halley's comet, 7, 27, 32-33,
67, 71, 133, 155-156
orbit of, 8
Hanunoo (Philippine tribe),
58-59
history, erasure of, 100, 101;
see also damnatio
memoriae
Homo faber, 56
Homo sapiens, 64
as parasite, 54-55, 62
Hutton, James, 13, 14
I
Ice Age, terminal fauna of, 66
invention, meaning of, 86
inventions, of power and of
understanding, 86-88, 91,
92
J
Jackson, Hughlings, 21
Jaspers, Karl, 147, 148
Jepsen, Glenn, 22
John, Saint, 147
Jupiter, 79
K
Kalahari Bushmen, 70, 71
Kazantzakis, Nikos, 31
Kroeber, A. L., 21
L
language:
development of, 142
limitations of, 31, 32
nature of, 20
speculation on emergence
of, 142
Lao-tse, 147
Lascaux, cave art of, 102
Levi-Strauss, Claude, 59
Lewis, Meriwether, 12
linguistic displacement, 144,
145
Lovell, Sir Bernard, 35
Lovering, Thomas, 65
Lucretius, 33, 34
Lyell, Sir Charles, 14
M
magnetic needle, 86
mammoth, belief in survival
of, 12
man:
alienation from nature,
82-84
as a bridge, 10, 11
destiny of, 94
disrespect for nature, 70
forerunners of, 81
fossil record of, 142
as interplanetary spore
bearer, 54
as planetary virus, 61, 64
possibility of dispersal
through galaxies, 78, 80,
81
retreat from nature, 144
world eater, 53-55
Maritain, Jacques, 121
Marlowe, Christopher,
134
Mars, 79, 133
Maya Indians, mathematical
achievements of, 130, 131,
132
Mead, Margaret, 113
Melville, Herman, 54
Mercury, 152
Mesozoic era, 42
Milky Way, galaxy of the, 35
monotheism, 143
Montagnais-Naskapi Indians,
58
moon landings, 90, 133
mucoroides, 54
Mumford, Lewis, 63, 71, 147
N
nature:
extravagance of, 81
hold on man, 139, 140, 156
primitive man's view of, 143
primitive and modern views
of, 59-61
Nazareth, 147
Nixon, President Richard M.,
77
Norman invasion, 7
North America, migration
from, 43
North Star, 86
O
Olmec civilization, 91, 93
Origin of Species, On the, 16
Ortega y Gasset, Jose, 107,
144
P
Palomar Mountain
Observatory, 88
Pan, 143
Peacock, Thomas Love, 123,
134
Phillips, Henry, on attempts
to foretell the future, 108
Pilobolus, 75-77, 80
Pindar, 11
Piranesi, Giambattista, 107
Placentalia, 42
planetary impoverishment,
danger of, 64-65
Plato, 55, 140, 143, 148
Platte river, 13
Pleistocene:
extinction in, 25
fauna, mystery of its
disappearance, 25-28
Pluto, 62, 152
poets, double vision of, 124
pollution, of the human
environment, 69
Primates, of New World
contrasted with Old, 43
primitive man:
attitude toward nature, 143
limitations, 58, 62, 63
prison, cosmic, nature of,
38-45
progress, misconception of,
104-106
proto-man:
on African and Asiatic
grasslands, 142
relative antiquity of in
comparison with Homo
sapiens, 23
pyramid, invisible, 87, 93,
132
pyramids, Egyptian, 87, 129
R
Radin, Paul, 115
relativity theory, in relation
to space travel, 78
rocket ship, 78
Roman empire, 77, 132
Rutherford, Sir Ernest, 78
S
Santayana, George, 41
Saturn, 79
science:
as a social institution, 90
creation of problems by, 92
world view of, 144
scientific method, invention
of, 86
scientists, role of in modern
business civilization, 104
Shakespeare, William, 134
slime molds, 53-54, 70
smog, 151
societies, characteristics of
future-oriented, 89
solar boats, Egyptian, 40-41
129
solar flares, 26, 27, 87
solar system, habitability of, 79
South America, Darwin's
visit to, 14
Southern Cross, 86
space probes, cost of, 89
space travel:
motivations of, 89, 90
and relativity, 78
specialization, biological
effects of, 16, 17
Speck, Frank G., 58
spectroscope, significance of,
91
Spengler, Oswald, 84
Stuart, Don, 125- 127
sunflower forest, 149-151, 153,
155, 156
superorganic, rise of, 18-21
Surveyor 3, cost of, 89
Suzuki, D. T, 146
systems analysis, 92-93
T
technological change, rapidity
of, 93
technology, cost of, 88-90
temperature, importance of
stability in mammals, 47,
48
Thompson, Eric, 133
Thoreau, Henry David, 103
time:
cyclical and Christian, 107
novel aspects of, 14-16
varieties of among
primitives, 111-114
time effacers, 100-101, 109.
111
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 13
Traherne, Thomas, 47
Tutankhamen, 102
U
United States, consumption
of world resources, 64
universe, age of, 35
V
Vaughan, Henry, 46
Venus, 79, 152
vertebrates, 44
vestigial organs, 18
W
war, nature of modern, 69
Whewell, William, 67
writing, significance of, 63,
67
Wyoming, 120
Y
youth revolt, current, 101
Yucatan, 131
Z
Zen Buddhism, 146
zero, independent invention of
by Maya, 86
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