Notes
- Lecomte du Noüy, Human Destiny (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1946), pp. 86–87.
- 2. Robert E. D. Clark, Christian Belief and Science (London: English Universities Press, 1960), pp. 57–58.
- The editor has brought to my attention the fact that a number of biological and psychosocial scientists, who have recently been seeking to understand cultural or psychosocial evolution, have also been pointing to man's self‐transcendence of his biological or genotypically prescribed nature. Among these is Theodosius Dobzhansky, who writes of “evolutionary transcendence” and “self‐transcendence” in his Biology of Ultimate Concern (New York: New American Library, 1967) as the novel ways in which man can psychologically and culturally arrange new and improved patterns going beyond the limits of previous patternings of the components supplied to him by genetic and cosmic evolution. On page 45 Dobzhansky notes, “It is in this sense that [A. I.] Hallowell wrote, ‘The psychological basis of culture lies not only in a capacity for highly complex forms of learning but in a capacity for transcending what is learned, a potentiality for innovation, creativity, reorganization and change.' Erich Fromm wrote that man ‘is driven by the urge to transcend the role of the creature. …'”
- CharlesTownes, “The Convergence of Science and Religion,” Zygon , I, No. 3 (September, 1966), 310.
- Clark, op. cit., p. 160.