Notes

  1. . Norbert Wiener, “Cybernetics,” in Science, Conflict and Society (Readings from Scientific American), ed. Garrett Hardin (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman & Co., 1969), pp. 119–25.
  2. . Arnold Tustin, “Feedback,” in Hardin (n. 1 above), pp. 126–83.
  3. . Durward L. Allen, Population, Resources and the Great Complexity, Selection no. 29 (Washington, D.C.: Population Reference Bureau, August 1969). Allen contrasts the life‐style of a resident of a small town in the 1920s with that of an urbanized man of today to the disadvantage of the latter. R. L. Meier emphasized a different view (see F. Fraser Darling and John P. Milton, eds., Future Environments of North America [Garden City, N.Y.: Natural History Press, 1966], p. 277; this book is a detailed record of an important symposium).
  4. . C. W. Griffin, Jr., Frontier Freedoms and Space Age Cities (New York: Pitman Publishing Corp., in press). See also his article of the same title in Saturday Review, February 7, 1970, p. 17.
  5. . John K. Galbraith, The Affluent Society (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1958), chap. 2.
  6. . Kenneth Boulding, “Economics and Ecology,” in Darling and Milton (n. 3 above), pp. 225–34.
  7. . Ian McHarg, “Discussion,” in Darling and Milton (n. 3 above), p. 307.
  8. . T. V. Smith and M. Grene, From Descartes to Kant (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1940).
  9. . See Tustin (n. 2 above).
  10. . See ibid.; and Wiener, “Cybernetics” (n. 1 above).
  11. . Cf. Van Rensselaer Potter, Bioethics: Bridge to the Future (Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., in press), chap. 1.
  12. . V. R.Potter, “The Present Status of the Deletion Hypothesis,” University of Michigan Medical Bulletin  23 (1957):401–12.
  13. . See Potter, Bioethics, chap. 1.
  14. . See Tustin (n. 2 above).
  15. . NormaMcArthur, “The Demography of Primitive Populations,” Science  167 (1970):1097–1101.
  16. . Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb (New York: Ballantine Books, 1969).
  17. . Margaret Mead, Continuities in Cultural Evolution (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1964).
  18. . See Potter, Bioethics, chap. 3 (n. 11 above).
  19. . BeryleCrowe, “Tragedy of the Commons Revisited,” Science  166 (1969): 1103–7.
  20. . Psalms 111:10.
  21. . JohnPlatt, “What We Must Do,” Science  166 (1969): 1115–21.
  22. . Shepard B. Clough, The Rise and Fall of Civilization: An Inquiry into the Relationship between Economic Development and Civilization (New York: Columbia University Press, 1957).
  23. . Galbraith (n. 5 above).
  24. . RalphWendell Burhoe, “Values via Science,” Zygon  4 (1969): 65–99. Professor Burhoe provides an extensive bibliography in addition to his thought‐provoking discussion. The same issue contains six other papers on the general subject of human values and natural science with many additional references.
  25. . See Potter, Bioethics. chap. 1 (n. 11 above).
  26. . Ibid., chap. 7.
  27. . Ibid., chap. 4.