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17.29–30 Hughlings Jackson] English neurologist John Hughlings Jackson (1835–1911).
18.17–18 “There never was . . . Glenn Jepsen] See “Time, Strata, and Fossils: Comments and Recommendations,” in Time and Stratigraphy in the Evolution of Man (1967), the proceedings of a symposium held on October 16, 1965.
23.3–4 Not till we are lost . . . THOREAU] See Thoreau’s Walden (1854), chapter 2: “Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”
23.5–6 “A name . . . Kazantzakis.] See Kazantzakis’s semi-autobiographical Report to Greco (1961).
30.18–25 a wise remark of George Santayana’s . . . sequel.”] See Santayana’s Realms of Being (1942).
30.33–36 this statement . . . changeless.”] See “Man’s Place in Space and Time” by Thornton Page (1913–1996), in Page, ed., Stars and Galaxies: Birth, Ageing, and Death in the Universe (1962).
34.7–8 a Greek . . . vessel itself”] See Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things (c. 50 B.C.E), book 6.
34.20–23 Henry Vaughan . . . dismembered.”] See Vaughan’s poem “Vanity of Spirit” (1650).
34.27–33 Thomas Traherne . . . infinite.”] See meditation 80 of Traherne’s Centuries, first published posthumously in 1908.
36.13–19 John Donne . . . one steppe, everywhere.”] See note 5.5–8.
37.3–4 Really we create . . . BATAILLON] French biologist Jean-Eugène Bataillon (1864–1953), quoted in Jean Rostand’s Can Man Be Modified? (1956).
38.7–9 observers like myself . . . toward space?] In December 1968, in an interview with a reporter from the Dallas Morning News, Eiseley questioned the value of the space program; his remarks were widely criticized.
38.11–13 the words that Herman Melville . . . mad.”] See Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851), chapter 41.
38.29–30 Arthur Clarke . . . end.”] See Childhood’s End (1953), a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008).
39.30–32 “a tinkerer . . . R. J. Forbes.] See Forbes’s The Conquest of Nature: Technology and Its Consequences (1968).
41.13–19 H. C. Conklin . . . culturally significant.”] See Conklin’s 1954 Yale Ph.D. dissertation, “The Relation of Hanunoo Culture to the Plant World,” as quoted in The Savage Mind (1962) by Claude Lévi-Strauss.
43.8–14 Samuel Taylor Coleridge . . . human insight.”] From an entry in Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835) dated May 1, 1830.
43.24–25 Joseph Glanvill . . . to America.”] From The Vanity of Dogmatizing, or Confidence in Opinions Manifested in a Discourse of the Shortness and Uncertainty of Our Knowledge, and Its Causes (1661), revised as Scepsis Scientifica (1665).
44.32–35 Glanvill . . . a fiction.”] See note 43.24–25.
44.39–40 Lewis Mumford . . . record.] See The City in History (1961): “Living by the record and for the record became one of the great stigmata of urban existence: indeed life as recorded—with all its temptations to overdramatization, illusory inflation, and deliberate falsification—tended often to become more important than life as lived.”
45.28–29 “We live in an epoch . . . Lovering] See “Mineral Resources from the Emerged Lands,” a paper presented on June 16–17, 1968, at a joint meeting of the State Department’s Policy Planning Council and the National Academy of Science’s Special Panel of the Committee on Science and Public Policy, and published in The Potential Impact of Science and Technology on Future U.S. Foreign Policy (1968).
47.32–35 “If we must . . . place of honor.”] See Whewell’s On the Philosophy of Discovery, Chapters Historical and Critical (1860), chapter 15.
50.6–9 “The living memory . . . continuum.”] See The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (1961), chapter 17.
51.3–6 Either the machine . . . GARRETT] See chapter 2 of Ouroboros; or, the Mechanical Extension of Mankind.
52.39–40 “Thou canst not . . . Path itself.”] See Helena Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence, Being Chosen Fragments from the “Book of the Golden Precepts” (1889).
59.37–38 “Traveling . . . seventeenth-century writer.] See the Preface to Villare Anglicum, or a View of the Townes of England (1656), by Sir Henry Spelman (c. 1562–1641).
67.3–5 The savage mind . . . LéVI-STRAUSS] The quotation, from The Savage Mind (1962), continues: “It builds mental structures which facilitate an understanding of the world in as much as they resemble it. In this sense savage thought can be defined as analogical thought.”
71.33–34 “Every man . . . through life.”] From an entry in Thoreau’s journals dated January 5, 1860.
72.5–8 In Ruth Benedict’s . . . time span.] See “Configurations of Culture in North America,” first published in the January–March 1932 issue of American Anthropologist.
75.13–23 Henry Phillips . . . is known.”] See Phillips’s essay “On the Nature of Progress,” published in American Scientist in October 1945.
77.2–4 as Joseph Campbell . . . no death.”] See The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology (1959).
79.7–8 Margaret Mead . . . lark song.”] See Mead’s poem “Absolute Benison,” first published in The New Republic on October 19, 1932: “Turn with nostalgia to that darkened garden / Where all eternal replicas are kept, / And the first rose and the first lark son / Since the first springtime have slept.”
81.3–6 From a . . . LINDSAY] From Lindsay’s poem “To Marie Delcourt-Curvers,” collected in The Origins of Alchemy in Graeco-Roman Egypt (1970).
81.6–11 Jean Cocteau . . . the audience.”] See Cocteau’s essay “Le Numéro Barbette,” first published in Nouvelle Revue Française in July 1926.
81.24–25 Blake . . . the natural.] Eiseley probably refers to an untitled poem William Blake (1757–1827) copied into a letter of November 22, 1802, to Thomas Butts, the relevant lines of which read: “For double the vision my Eyes do see / And a double vision is always with me / With my inward Eye ’tis an old Man grey / With my outward a Thistle across my way.”
83.6–7 Jacques Maritain . . . thing for God.] See Maritain’s God and the Permission of Evil (1966).
84.21–24 Thomas Love Peacock . . . crab, backward.”] See Peacock’s “The Four Ages of Poetry” (1820).
85.10–11 Ralph Waldo Emerson . . . no traveller.”] See “Self-Reliance,” from Essays: First Series (1841).
86.5–6 Don Stuart . . . “Twilight.”] John W. Campbell (1910–1971) published “Twilight” under the pseudonym Don A. Stuart, in the November 1934 issue of Astounding Stories.
92.5–9 a young poet . . . and a man.] See Marlowe’s The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (first performed in 1592), I.i.23.
93.3–7 The human heart . . . SANTAYANA] See “The Philosophy of Travel,” written around 1912 and first published posthumously in 1964.
98.29–30 Ortega y Gasset . . . only history.”] See Ortega’s essay “History as a System” (1935): “Man, in a word, has no nature; what he has is—history.”
100.36–39 “Other sheep . . . follow me.”] See John 10:16, 27.
106.39–107.2 “The poet . . . neither is of use.”] See “Europe and European Books,” first published in The Dial in April 1843.
107.16–17 “to pronounce . . . clear voice”] See The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), 1.2.1.2, by Robert Burton (1577–1640).
Index
Aborigines (Australia), 40, 42–43, 78
Absaroka Range, 82
Aeschylus, 4
Africa, 46; Bushmen in, 49–50, 56–57; early hominids in, 32, 96
Agriculture, 46, 48, 56
Akhenaton, 70
Alpha Centauri, 87
Andes Mountains, 12
Anthropology, 5, 16, 42, 76, 80
Antibiotics, 64
Apollo 11, 20
Apollo 12, 62
Apollo 13, 10
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Archeology, 18, 61–62, 67, 71, 82
Asia, 96, 106
Athens, Greece, 10
Atoms, 25–27
Australia, 31–32, 40, 42–43, 78
Aztecs, 70
Bacon, Francis, 49, 65; The Advancement of Learning, 47; and scientific method, 47–48
Bacteria, 43, 63–64
Bataillon, Jean, 37
Beagle, H.M.S., 12
Beau (dog), 28–29
Benedict, Ruth, 72
Bernard, Claude, 33–35
Big Bone Lick, 11
Bighorn River, 82
Bipedalism, 18
Bison, 20, 46
Blake, William, 81, 84
Body temperature, 35
Brain, 104; eye brain, 33; hominid, 16, 18–19, 96; human, 16–19, 35, 96, 99, 106; mammalian, 31, 105; and speech, 15, 19, 97; and writing, 47, 103
Brazil, 81
Britain, 70
Bruno, Giordano, 59
Buddha, 56, 58, 100, 106
Buddhism, 52, 99–100
Bushmen, 49–50, 56–57
Campbell, Joseph, 77
Carthage, 70
Cave paintings, 71
Center for Radio Physics, 20–21
China, 100, 106
Christianity, 11, 58, 70, 74, 89–90, 97–98, 100–101, 106
Clark, William, 10–12
Clarke, Arthur, 38
Cocteau, Jean, 81, 87
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 43–44
Coman, Dale, 3
Comets, 3–4, 7–10, 21–22, 24, 47, 50, 91, 107
Communism, 70
Computers, 54, 59, 72
Confucius, 100
Conklin, H. C., 41
Continents, 31–33
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 30
Crees, 40
Cromwell, Oliver, 70
Cyborgs, 55–56, 85
Darwin, Charles, 53; evolutionary theory of, 15; on humans, 18–19; On the Origin of Species, 13; in South America, 12
Devonian period, 14
Dinosaurs, 20, 91
DNA, 34
Dogs, 28–29
Domestication of plants and animals, 20, 46
Donne, John, 5, 36
Dreamtime, 78–79
Ecological balance, 79
Eden, 20, 22
Egypt, ancient, 30, 60, 70–71, 88
Electron microscope, 60
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 85–86, 106–7
Energy, 8, 45–47
Eskimos, 41, 80
Eurasia, 19, 32, 47, 101
Evolution, 34; and biological specialization, 14–17; Darwin on, 15; exosomatic, 55–56; and genetics, 30; and geological time, 15, 18–19, 53, 63, 65, 71, 75; human, 19, 31, 35, 37, 55, 105; mammalian, 31–33; social, 17–18; Wallace on, 15
Exosomatic evolution, 55–56
Extinction, 20–21
Eye brain, 33
Faust, 58, 76, 92
Forbes, R. J., 39–40
Fossils, 18; hominid/human, 17, 96–97; living, 17
Frémont, John C., 11
French Revolution, 70
Freud, Sigmund, 67
Frontier, 37
Future, pursuit of, 48–49, 53, 72–75
Galaxies, 24–28, 48, 53–55
Galileo Galilei, 30
Garrett, Garet, 51–52
Genetics, 17–19, 30, 32, 34, 37, 52, 55
Geological time, 15, 18–19, 53, 63, 65, 71, 75
Glanvill, Joseph, 43–44, 48
Gold, Thomas, 20–21
Greece, ancient, 10, 34, 90, 100, 106
Green revolution, 73
Gregory, William King, 31
Halley’s comet, 3, 7–10, 22, 47, 50, 91, 107
Hanunó’o (language), 41
Henry VIII, 70
Hieroglyphs, 16, 34, 61, 88, 103
Hinduism, 59, 100, 106
History, erasure of, 69–70, 77
Holy Grail, 58
Hominids, 17; in Africa, 32, 96; brains of, 16, 18–19; fossils of, 96–97
Homo sapiens, 26, 33, 38, 45, 52; bipedalism of, 18; brain of, 16–19, 35, 96, 99, 106; Darwin on, 18–19; evolution of, 19, 31, 35, 37, 55, 105; fossils of, 96–97; migrations of, 31–32; speech of, 15, 19, 97; tools of, 19, 39, 41, 43, 106
Housman, A. E., 5
Hutton, James, 11–12
Ice age, 9, 12, 21, 57, 76; development of human brain during, 18–19, 96; impact on mammals, 46–47
Incas, 70
India, 100, 106
Industrialization, 18, 60–61, 72–73
Jackson, Hughlings, 17
Jaspers, Karl, 100–101
Jefferson, Thomas, 12
Jepsen, Glenn, 18
Jesus, 100–101, 106
John (apostle), 100
Judaism, 100, 106
Jupiter, 54
Jurassic period, 91
Kalahari Desert, 49–50
Kazantzakis, Nikos, 23
Kentucky, 11
Kroeber, A. L., 17
Labor, diversification of, 46
Labrador, 40
Land bridges, 32
Language, 15–16, 19, 23, 85, 96–99
Lao-tse, 100
Lascaux cave paintings, 71
Leopards, 57
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 41, 67
Lewis, Meriwether, 10–12
Light, speed of, 26–27, 33, 36, 53–54, 60
Lindsay, Jack, 81
Lions, 49–50
Living fossils, 17
Lovell, Bernard, 26
Lovering, Thomas, 45
Lucretius, 25, 34
Lyell, Charles, 12
Magnetic compass, 59
Mammoths, 9, 11, 20, 46
Maritain, Jacques, 83
Marlowe, Christopher: Doctor Faustus, 92
Mars, 54, 59, 91, 104
Marsupials, 31
Mastodons, 20, 46
Mathematics, 59, 75, 89–90, 97
Mayans, 59, 62, 88–91
Mead, Margaret, 79
Mediterranean Sea, 30
Melville, Herman, 38
Mendel, Gregor, 30
Mercury, 104
Mesopotamia, 90
Mesozoic era, 31
Metabolism, 35, 61
Meteorites, 3
Mexico, 62, 90
Microscope, 60
Migrations, human, 31–32
Milky Way, 26
Missouri River, 10
Monkeys, 32
Monobloc, 25–27
Montagnais-Naskapis, 40–41
Moon, 20–21, 23, 43, 62, 74, 92, 95, 105
Mucoroides, 37
Mumford, Lewis, 44, 50, 100
Mutations, 16, 43
Native Americans, 82, 92; Aztec, 70; Cree, 40; Eskimo, 41, 80; Inca, 70; Mayan, 59, 62, 88–91; Montagnis-Naskapi, 40–41; Pawnee, 76–77
Neihardt, John G., 4
Neolithic period, 9–10
Newsweek, 105
New York City, 56–57, 80, 93–94, 103
Nixon, Richard M., 53
North America, 31
Nuclear energy, 8, 53
Nuclear weapons, 48, 59, 106
Olfactory sense, 28–29
Olmecs, 62
Ortega y Gasset, José, 74, 98
Paleontology, 18, 31
Paleozoic era, 18
Palomar Observatory, 6, 60
Parasites, 37–38
Pawnees, 76–77
Peacock, Thomas Love, 84, 92
Philippines, 41
Phillips, Henry, 75
Pilobolus, 51–52, 54
Pindar, 10
Piranesi, Giambattista, 74
Placentalia, 31
Planets, 54, 62, 104
Plato, 38, 79, 95, 101
Platte River, 11
Pleistocene epoch, 20
Pluto, 104
Pollution, 5, 49, 73, 75, 106
Population, 45–46, 75
Prehensile tail, 32
Primates, 17
–19, 31–33, 97
Primordial atom, 25–27
Progress, 40, 42, 48, 72–73, 75, 91
Puritans, 70
Pygmies, 10, 19
Radin, Paul: The World of Primitive Man, 80
Rainey, Froelich, 3
Rome, ancient, 52, 59, 64, 90
Rome, Italy, 59
Rostand, Jean, 7
Rutherford, Ernest, 53
Santayana, George, 30, 93
Saturn, 54
Science, 55, 61, 79, 98; Bacon on, 48–49; and the future, 48–49, 53, 72–75; modern, 60, 72; problem solving in, 64; as religion, 104; rise of, 58, 62, 72, 80, 90
Scientific method, 47–48, 59
Shakespeare, William, 92
Sloths, 20
Social evolution, 17–18
Social memory, 69–70, 77
Solar flares, 21–22, 60
Solar system, 24, 30, 54, 104–5
South America, 31; Darwin in, 12; monkeys in, 32
Space exploration, 20, 23, 26–27, 43, 49, 52–56, 59, 61–62, 65, 74, 85, 92, 95, 105, 107
Spain, 70
Specialization, biological, 14–17
Speck, Frank G., 2, 40
Spectroscope, 63
Speech, 15, 19, 97
Spelman, Sir Henry, 59
Spengler, Oswald: The Decline of the West, 58
Spores, 37–39, 51–52
Standard of living, 45, 72–73
Stars, 54, 59, 63
Stone age, 9–10
Stuart, Don, 86–87
Surveyor 3, 61
Suzuki, Daisetz, 99
Technology, 45, 77, 88; and agriculture, 56; Bacon on, 48; industrial, 18, 72–73; modern, 61, 64, 72–73, 79, 106; and Native Americans, 40–42; and tools, 39
Telescope, 6, 24, 60
Thompson, Eric, 91
Thoreau, Henry David, 23; journals, 71
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 11–12
Tools, 19, 39–41, 43, 106
Totemic rituals, 77–78, 97–98
Traherne, Thomas, 34
Tutankhamen, 71
Ultraviolet radiation, 21–22
Urbanization, 45–46, 57, 64, 75, 80, 90
Vaughan, Henry, 34
Venus, 54, 104
Viruses, 43, 63–64
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 15
Warfare, 48, 59, 106
Whewell, William, 47
Wilderness, 10–12, 37, 39, 43
Wolves, 20