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EVIL AND WORLD ORDER
WORLD PERSPECTIVES
Volumes already published
I Approaches to God Jacques Maritain
II Accent on Form Lancelot Law Whyte
III Scope of Total Architecture Walter Gropius
IV Recovery of Faith Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
V World Indivisible Konrad Adenauer
VI Society and Knowledge V. Gordon Childe
VII The Transformations of Man Lewis Mumford
VIII Man and Materialism Fred Hoyle
IX The Art of Loving Erich Fromm
X Dynamics of Faith Paul Tillich
XI Matter, Mind and Man Edmund W. Sinnott
XII Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
XIII Man’s Western Quest Denis de Rougemont
XIV American Humanism Howard Mumford Jones
XV The Meeting of Love and Knowledge
Martin C. D’Arcy, S.J.
XVI Rich Lands and Poor Gunnar Myrdal
XVII Hinduism: Its Meaning for the Liberation
of the Spirit Swami Nikhilananda
XVIII Can People Learn to Learn? Brock Chisholm
XIX Physics and Philosophy Werner Heisenberg
XX Art and Reality Joyce Cary
XXI Sigmund Freud’s Mission Erich Fromm
XXII Mirage of Health Rene Dubos
XXIII Issues of Freedom Herbert J. Muller
XXIV Humanism Moses Hadas
XXV Life: Its Dimensions and Its Bounds
Robert M. Maclver
XXVI Challenge of Psychical Research Gardner Murphy
XXVII Alfred North Whitehead: His Reflections
on Man and Nature Ruth Nanda Anshen
XXVIII The Age of Nationalism Hans Kohn
XXIX Voices of Man Mario Pei
XXX New Paths in Biology Adolf Portmann
XXXI Myth and Reality Mircea Eliade
XXXII History as Art and as Science H. Stuart Hughes
XXXIII Realism in Our Time Georg Lukacs
XXXIV The Meaning of the Twentieth Century
Kenneth E. Boulding
XXXV On Economic Knowledge Adolph Lowe
XXXVI Caliban Reborn Wilfred Mellers
XXXVII Through the Vanishing Point
Marshall McLuhan and Harley Parker
XXXVIII The Revolution of Hope Erich Fromm
XXXIX Emergency Exit Ignazio Silone
XL Marxism and the Existentialists Raymond Aron
XLI Physical Control of the Mind
Jose M. R. Delgado, M.D.
XLII Physics and Beyond Werner Heisenberg
XLIII On Caring Milton Mayeroff
XLIV Deschooling Society Ivan Illich
XLV Revolution Through Peace Dom Helder Camara
XLVI Man Unfolding Jonas Salk
XLVII Tools for Conviviality Ivan Illich
XLVIII Across the Frontiers Werner Heisenberg
XLVIX Evil and World Order William Irwin Thompson
BOARD OF EDITORS
of
WORLD PERSPECTIVES
Erwin Chargaff
Lord Kenneth Clark
Werner Heisenberg
Sir Fred Hoyle
Konrad Lorenz
Adolph Lowe
Joseph Needham
I. I. Rabi
Karl Rahner, S.J.
Lewis Thomas
C. N. Yang
Chiang Yee
WORLD PERSPECTIVES • Volume Forty-nine
Planned and Edited by RUTH NANDA ANSHEN
EVIL AND
WORLD ORDER
WILLIAM IRWIN THOMPSON
1817
HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS
New York, Hagerstown, San Francisco, London
Permission granted by the following publishers for use of material under copy¬
right is gratefully acknowledged: For “Meditation on the Dark Ages, Past and
Present,” The New Alchemy Journal, Vol. Ill, 1975. For “We Become What We
Hate,” The New York Times, copyright © 1971 by The New York Times Com¬
pany. For “Three Wise Men of Gotham,” which first appeared as “Technological
Liberalism” and “Technology: the Final Solution” in The Canadian Forum. For
“Occulture: Out of Sight, Out of Mind,” which first appeared as “Alternate
Realities” in The New York Times Book Review, copyright © by The New York
Times Company, 1972. For material in “Introductions to Findhorn”: Part I, which
first appeared as the Foreword to The Findhorn Garden by The Findhorn Com¬
munity, Harper & Row, Publishers, copyright © 1975 by The Findhorn Founda¬
tion; and Part II, which first appeared as “Mysticism and Science” in The New
Age Journal. For “Freedom, Evil, and Comedy,” which first appeared in The
Tulane Drama Review, Spring, 1965, Vol. 9, No. 3. For “The Ends of Art,” which
first appeared as “Art in the Doorway Between Two Worlds” in The Los Angeles
Times Book Review. For lines from Richmond Lattimore’s translation of Homer’s
Iliad, University of Chicago Press. For lines from Philip Wayne’s translation of
Goethe’s Faust, reprinted by permission of Penguin Books. For lines from T. S.
Eliot’s The Waste Land, from The Collected Poems 1909-1962, reprinted by
permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. For material from Jose Delgado’s
The Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society, reprinted by
permission of Harper 8c Row, Publishers.
evil and world order. Copyright © 1976 by William Irwin Thompson. Intro¬
duction copyright © 1976 by Ruth Nanda Anshen. All rights reserved. Printed
in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced
in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief
quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information address
Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022.
Published simultaneously in Canada by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, Toronto.
FIRST EDITION
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Thompson, William Irwin.
Evil and world order.
(World perspectives ; v. 49)
Includes index.
CONTENTS: Meditation on the Dark Ages, past and
present.—We become what we hate.—Three wise men
of Gotham, [etc.]
1. Civilization, Modern—1950- —Addresses,
essays, lectures. 2. Technology and civilization—
Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Title.
CB428.T46 1976 909.82 74-20417
ISBN 0-06-014276-6
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