Table of Contents

Introduction; 1: I / Stability and Adaptability of Humankind; 1: 1 / Old World and New World; 2: 2 / The Saga of the Human Species; 3: 3 / The Races of Man; 4: 4 / Biological Freudianism; 5: 5 / Social Adaptations; 2: II / Choosing to Be Human; 6: 1 / The Bestiality of the Human Species; 7: 2 / The Humanness of the Human Species; 8: 3 / Individualism and Collectivity; 9: 4 / Humanity and the Beast; 3: III / The Past in the Present; 10: 1 / The Cave and the Horizon; 11: 2 / Cities Old and New; 12: 3 / The Clan and the Stranger; 13: 4 / Life in the City; 14: 5 / Crowds and Machines; 15: 6 / Hauts Lieux and Monuments; 4: IV / At Home on Earth; 16: 1 / Yesterday’s Future Shock; 17: 2 / The Camp and the Open Road; 18: 3 / Ulysses and the American Frontier; 19: 4 / Technologic Utopia; 20: 5 / The Incarnations of Humankind; 21: 6 / Revolutions and Resurrection; 5: V / On the Pleasures of Being Human; 22: 1 / The Diversity of Human Life; 23: 2 / Pluralism and World Order; 24: 3 / Adventure and Fantasy; 25: 4 / Joie de Vivre and Happiness

About the Author

Rene Dubos

Reviews

-Reading Beast or Angel? is a pleasant, comfortable experience... useful as an antidote to the pessimism engendered by reading the morning paper.- --Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists -[T]he book under review is a pleasure to read.- --Theodosius Dobzhansky, The Quarterly Review of Biology

"Reading Beast or Angel? is a pleasant, comfortable experience... useful as an antidote to the pessimism engendered by reading the morning paper." --Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists "[T]he book under review is a pleasure to read." --Theodosius Dobzhansky, The Quarterly Review of Biology

"Reading Beast or Angel? is a pleasant, comfortable experience... useful as an antidote to the pessimism engendered by reading the morning paper." --Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists "[T]he book under review is a pleasure to read." --Theodosius Dobzhansky, The Quarterly Review of Biology

"Reading Beast or Angel? is a pleasant, comfortable experience... useful as an antidote to the pessimism engendered by reading the morning paper." --Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists