Mankind
EVOLUTION
Avenel, Antony. View from Orbit II. London, We1·ner Laurie, 1957. 167 p.
Part I deals with question of whether life is designed or is a chance occurrence.
Part II is concerned with ways and means by which life could be guided by an
outside agency. Part m considers th& future of the human race.
Blum, Harold F. Pers::>ectives in evolution. A:~1erican scientist, v. 43, Oct. 1955:
595-610.
Assuming life to exist on other planets of the billion solar systems now thought
to comprise the known universe, the author says the next easy step is to assume
that our own evolution here on earth has been paralleled elsewhere.
Buck, Richard M. Cosmic consciousness. New York, E. P. Dutton and Co., 1901.
384 p.
Evidence is presented that there have been, in the last three thousand years of
human history, at least fourteen undeniable cases of complete and permanent
"illumination, " and that in addition to these, there have been many instances of
riartial, temporary, or doubtful "illumination, " several of which have occurred
ctu~ing the past century. Noting the inrreasing frequency of the experience, th'.'
author deduces that very gradually -- and, sporadically -- the human race is in
the process of dC!veloping a new kmd of consciousness, far in advance of ordi-
nary human self-consciousness.
Darwin, Charles G. The next mi11ion years. Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday & Co.,
1953. 210 p.
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