Cosmic Joy and Local Pain: Musings of a Mystic Scientist

344 Pages·1987·9.244 MB·English

by  Harold J. Morowitz

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Cosmic Joy
and
Local Pain
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Mayonnaise and the Origin of Life
The Wine of Life
Energy Flow in Biology
Ego Niches
Foundations of Bioenergetics
Cosmic Joy
and
Local Pain
Musmgs of a Mystic Scientist
HAROLD J. MOROWITZ
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
New York
Selections from The Phenomenon of Man, by Pierre Teilhard
de Chardin, translated by Bernard Wall, copyright 1955 by Edi¬
tions du Seuil, copyright © 1959 in the English translation by
William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd and Elarper & Row, Publishers,
Inc., are reprinted by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.
Quotations from “Pantheism,” by Alasdair MacIntyre, are
reprinted with permission of the publisher from Encyclopedia of
Philosophy, Paul Edwards, Editor in Chief, volume 6, page 33,
copyright © 1967 by Macmillan, Inc.
The quotation from fulius Robert Mayer, Prophet of Energy,
by Robert Bruce Lindsay, copyright © 1973, is reprinted with per¬
mission of Pergamon Press.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Morowitz, Harold J.
Cosmic joy and local pain.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
1. Science—Philosophy. 2. Religion and
science—1946- . I. Title.
Q175.M867 1987 401 86—26020
ISBN 0-684—18443—5
Copyright © 1987 Elarold J. Morowitz
All rights reserved
Published simultaneously in Canada by
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First Edition
To the students of Pierson College
Classes of 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987,
. 1988, and 1989,
without whose constant concern and attention
this hook would have keen completed
years earlier
‘‘The only way you can know your limits is to exceed them.”