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18.
Steven Weinberg, The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe, New York: Basic Books, 1977, page 47.

19.
Ibid., pages 49 and 124.

20.
Ibid.,
pages 126–127.

21.
John Gribbin,
The Birth of Time,
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999, pages 177–179.

22.
Weinberg, Op.
cit.,
page 52.

23.
Ibid.,
chapter 5 in essence, pages 101ff.

24.
See: John D. Barrow,
The Origin of the Universe,
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994, page 48, for a diagram of how the four forces fit into the developing chronology of the universe.

25.
See also: Gribbin,
Companion to the Cosmos, Op. cit.,
pages 353–354.

26.
Ibid.,
page 401; but see also Barrow, Op.
cit.,
pages 134–135 for some problems with black holes.

27.
Gribbin, Companion to the Cosmos, Op. cit., pages 343 and 387.

28.
Ibid.,
page 388.

29.
Ibid.,
page 344.

30.
Barrow,
Op. cit.,
page 10.

31.
See also: Gribbin,
The Birth of Time, Op. cit.,
pages 50–52 for another synthesis and more recent astronomical observation. And Gribbin,
Op. cit.,
pages 457–459.

32.
Fairley,
Op. cit.,
page 194.

33.
There are several accounts. See, for example: John Allegro,
The Dead Sea Scrolls,
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1956.

34.
Géza Vermes, The Dead Sea Scrolls: Qumran in Perspective, London: Collins, 1977, pages 87ff.

35.
Allegro, Op.
cit.,
page 104.

36.
Vermes, Op.
cit.,
page 118–119.

37.
The New Catholic Encyclopaedia, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967, page 215.

38.
Ibid.

39.
Ibid.

40.
John Heywood Thomas,
Paul Tillich: An Appraisal,
London: SCM Press, 1963, pages 13–14.

41.
He also thought there were bound to be different ways of approaching God. See for example,
Theology and Culture,
New York: Oxford University Press, 1959, especially chapters IX on Einstein, XIII on Russia and America, and XIV on Jewish thought.

42.
Paul Tillich,
Systematic Theology I,
London: Nisbet, 1953, pages 140–142. Thomas, Op.
cit.,
page 50.

43.
John Macquarrie,
The Scope of Demythologising: Bultmann and His Critics,
London: SCM Press, 1960, page 13. I have relied heavily on this work.

44.
See also: Rudolf Bultmann, ‘The Question of Natural Revolution,’ in
Rudolf Bultmann: Essays – Philosophy and Theology,
London: SCM Press, 1955, pages 104–106. Macquarrie,
Op. cit.,
pages 12–13.

45.
Macquarrie, Op.
cit.,
pages 88–89.

46.
Ibid.,
page 84.

47.
Ibid.,
page 181.

48.
Bultmann, Essays, Op. cit., pages 305ff.

49.
Claude Cuénot,
Teilhard de Chardin: A Biographical Study,
London: Burns & Oates, 1965, page 5.

50.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,
Christianity and Evolution,
London: Collins, 1971, pages 76 and 138; translated by Renée Hague.

51.
Teilhard de Chardin,
Op. cit.,
page 301.

52.
In fact, there were two books:
The Phenomenon of Man,
London: Collins, New York: Harper, 1959, revised 1965; and
The Appearance of Man,
London: Collins, New York: Harper, 1965.

53.
Teilhard de Chardin, Christianity and Evolution, Op. cit., page 258.

54.
Reinhold Niebuhr,
The Godly and the Ungodly,
London: Faber, 1959.

55.
Ibid.,
pages 22–23.

56.
Ibid.,
page 131.

57.
Arthur Schlesinger Jr, ‘Reinhold Niebuhr’s role in American political thought and life,’ in Charles W. Kegley and Robert W Bretall (editors),
Reinhold Niebuhr: His Religious, Social and Political Thought,
London: Macmillan, 1956, page 125.

58.
There are several accounts of the council, by no means all of them written by Catholics. I have used the two indicated. See: Robert Kaiser,
Inside the Council: The Story of Vatican II,
London: Burns & Oates, 1963, pages 12–15.

59.
Ibid.,
page 236.

60.
Ibid.,
page 179.

61.
Paul Blanshard,
Paul Blanshard on Vatican II,
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1967, page 340.

62.
Ibid.,
pages 288–289.

63.
Anna Bramwell,
Ecology in the Twentieth Century: A History,
London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989, pages 40–41.

64.
Ibid.,
pages 132–134.

65.
Linda Lear, Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature, London: Allen Lane, 1998.

66.
Ibid.,
pages 191ff.

67.
Ibid.,
pages 365–369.

68.
Richard Doll, ‘The first reports on smoking and lung cancer,’ in S. Lock, L. A. Reynolds, and E. M. Tansey (editors),
Ashes to Ashes: The History of Smoking and Health,
Amsterdam-Atlanta: Rodopi, 1998, pages 130–142.

69.
See: Carol B. Gartner,
Rachel Carson,
New York: Frederick Ungar, 1983, pages 98–99 for a discussion of Carson’s language in the book.

70.
For the long-term fate of DDT see Bill McKibben,
The End of Nature,
London: Viking, 1990.

71.
Lear, Op.
cit.,
pages 358–360.

72.
Ibid.,
pages 409–414.

73.
Some thought she exaggerated the risk. See: Gartner, Op.
cit.,
page 103.

74.
Lear,
Op. cit.,
page 419.

75.
D. H. Meallows, D. L. Meallows, J. Randen and W. W. Behrens,
The Limits to Growth,
Rome: Potomac, 1972.

76.
Barbara Ward and Renée Dubos,
Only One Earth,
London: André Deutsch, 1972.

77.
Charles Reich,
The Greening of America,
New York: Random House, 1970, page 11.

78.
Ibid.,
page 108.

79.
Ibid.,
page 129.

80.
Ibid.,
pages 145–146.

81.
Fritz Schumacher,
Small is Beautiful,
London: Anthony Blond, 1973;
A Guide for the Perplexed,
London: Jonathan Cape, 1977.

82.
Barbara Wood,
Alias Papa: A Life of Fritz Schumacher,
London: Jonathan Cape, 1984, pages 349–350.

83.
Ibid.,
page 355.

84.
Ibid.,
pages 353ff.

85.
Ibid.,
page 364.

CHAPTER 33: A NEW SENSIBILITY

1.
Martin Gilbert,
The Arab-Israel Conflict,
London: Collins, 1974, page 97. Quoted in Paul Johnson,
Op. cit.,
page 669.

2.
Johnson, Op.
cit.,
page 669.

3.
Ibid.,
pages 663–665.

4.
J. K. Galbraith,
The New Industrial Estate,
London: Deutsch, 1967.

5.
Ibid.,
pages 180–188.

6.
Ibid.,
pages 59 and 208–209.

7.
Ibid.,
page 223.

8.
Ibid.,
page 234.

9.
Ibid.,
page 347.

10.
Ibid.,
page 393.

11.
Ibid., page 389.

12.
Ibid.,
page 362.

13.
Waters, Op.
cit.,
page 108.

14.
Daniel Bell, The Coming of the Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting, New York: Basic Books, 1975, page 119. Waters, Op. cit., page 109.

15.
Waters, Op.
cit.,
page 109.

16.
Ibid.

17.
Bell, Op.
cit.,
page 216. Waters, Op.
cit.,
page 117.

18.
Waten,
Op. cit.,
pages 119–120.

19.
Daniel Bell,
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism,
New York: Basic Books, 1976; 20
th
anniversary issue, paperback, 1996, page 284.

20.
Waters, Op.
cit.,
page 126.

21.
Bell, The Cultural Contradiction of Capitalism, Op. cit., pages xxvff. Waters, Op. cit., page 126.

22.
Waters, Op.
cit.,
page 126.

23.
Bell,
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, Op. cit.,
page xxix; and Daniel Bell, ‘Resolving the Contradictions of Modernity and Modernism,’
Society,
27 (3; 4), 1990, pages 43–50 and 66–75, quoted in Waters Op.
cit.,
page 132.

24.
Ibid.,
page 133.

25.
Bell, Op.
cit.,
page 67.

26.
Waters,
Op. cit.,
page 134.

27.
Mitchell Cohen and Dennis Hale (editors),
The New Student Left,
Boston: Beacon Press, 1967, revised edition, pages 12–13.

28.
Theodore Roszak,
The Making of a Counter Culture,
New York: Doubleday, 1969, University of California Press paperback, 1995.

29.
Ibid.,
page xxvi.

30.
Ibid.,
page 50.

31.
Ibid.,
page 62.

32.
Ibid.,
page 64.

33.
Ibid.,
page 182.

34.
And see the discussion of Maslow in: Colin Wilson,
New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution,
London: Gollancz, 1973, pages 29ff

35.
Roszak,
Op. cit.,
page 165.

36.
Alan Watts, This Is It, and Other Essays on Spiritual Experiences, New York: Collier, 1967.

37.
Robert Pirsig,
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,
London: The Bodley Head, 1974; Vintage paperback, 1989.

38.
Roszak, Op.
cit.,
pages 141–142.

39.
Steve Bruce,
Religion in the Modern World: From Cathedrals to Cults,
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, pages 178–180.

40.
Ibid.,
pages 181–186.

41.
Tom Wolfe,
The Purple Decades,
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982, page xiii.

42.
Tom Wolfe,
Radical Chic,
London: Michael Joseph, 1970; and
Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers,
London: Michael Joseph, 1971.

43.
Wolfe,
The Me Decade,
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976.

44.
Wolfe, The Purple Decades, Op. cit., pages 292— 293.

45.
Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Dimishing Expectations, New York: W. W. Norton, 1979; Warner paperback, 1979.

46.
Ibid.,
page 17.

47.
Ibid.,
pages 18–19.

48.
Ibid.,
page 29.

49.
Ibid.,
page 42.

50.
Ibid.,
page 259.

51.
Ibid.,
pages 315–316.

52.
Ibid.,
page 170.

53.
Keith Thomas,
Religion and the Decline of Magic,
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971; Penguin 1991.

54.
Ibid.,
page 31.

55.
Ibid.,
page 34.

56.
Ibid.,
page 62.

57.
Ibid.,
page 153.

58.
Ibid.,
page 161.

59.
Ibid.,
page 174.

60.
Ibid.,
page 249.

61.
Ibid.,
page 384.

62.
Ibid.,
page 387.

63.
Ibid.,
pages 391–401.

64.
Ibid.,
pages 445 and 505.

65.
Ibid.,
pages 763–764.

66.
Christopher Hill,
The World Turned Upside Down,
London: Temple Smith, 1972.

67.
Ibid.,
chapters 3, 6, 7 and 10.

68.
Ibid.,
pages 282 and 290.

69.
Ibid.,
chapter 15, pages 247ff.

70.
Ibid.,
pages 253–258.

71.
Owen Chadwick, The Secularisation of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975.

72.
Ibid., chapter 5, passim.

73.
Ibid.,
pages 209–210.

CHAPTER 34: GENETIC SAFARI

1.
Robert A. Hinde, ‘Konrad Lorenz (1903–89) and Niko Tinbergen (1907–88)’, in Fuller (editor),
Seven Pioneers of Psychology, Op. cit.,
pages 76–77 and 81–82.

2.
Niko Tinbergen,
The Animal in its World, 2 volumes,
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1972, especially volume 1, pages 250ff

3.
Mary Leakey, Olduvai Gorge: My Search for Early Man, Op. cit.

4.
Robert Ardrey,
African Genesis,
London: Collins, 1961, Fontana paperback, 1967.

5.
Adrian House, The Great Safari: The Lives of George and Joy Adamson, London: Harvill, 1993, page xiii.

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