| THE PHENOMENON OF MAN Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Bernard Wall (Transl.) Sir Julian Huxley (Intro.) New York: Harper & Row, 1959 |
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| LibCong 59-5154 | 320pp. | SC | $? | |
| Page 19: | "This belief in the pre-eminent importance of the personality in the scheme of things was for him a matter of faith, bu of faith supported by rational scientific knowledge" |
| Missing letter, missing punctuation: S/B "but of faith supported by rational scientific knowledge." |
| Page 27: | "But, like him, we must not take refuge in abstractions of generalities". |
| Probably S/B "abstractions or generalities". |
| Page 126: | "This grasped, let us now lift our eyes to the vast system enclodse by the two biota, placentals and a-placentals, considered together." |
| S/B "enclosed by". |
| Page 147: | "But now we see it emerging again, on the tide, with the tide (duly recorded by the nervous systems), whose flood carries the ving mass ever onward towards more consciousness." |
| Two letters not printed; S/B "living". |
| Page 148: | "Faithful to their analytical and determinist methods, biolgists persist in looking for the principle of vital developments in external stimuli or in statistics: the struggle for survival, natural selection and so on." |
| S/B "biologists". |
| Pages 257-8: | "The first is analysis, that marvellous instrument of scientific research to which we owe all our advances but which, breaking down synthesis after synthesis, allows on soul after another to escape..." |
| Letter not printed; S/B "one soul". |
| Page 261: | "I have sufficiently tried to stress,its pyletic value and no one can accuse me of belittling it." |
| Replace comma with space; S/B "stress its". |
| Page 305: | "But these1 modus vivendi must not be confused with genuine ontological progress." |
| Bilingual error of number; S/B "this modus vivendi". |
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