The Crazy Ape: Written by a Biologist for the Young (Digital Original)

Synopsis

A Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Szent-Györgyi concerns himself with the underlying forces and conditions that have prevented the realization of the higher possibilities of the American Dream, and, by extension, of all mankind. He addresses himself especially to the youth of the world in his attempt to show how man, the more he progresses technologically, seems the more to regress psychologically and socially, until he resembles his primate ancestors in a state of high schizophrenia. The fundamental question asked by this book is: why is it that most of the scientific research that is done to elevate human life serves in the end to destroy it? That this phenomenon exists is unarguable. How to alter it is the problem the author tackles. He finds the possibility, indeed the instrument of our survival, in our youth. Dr. Szent-Györgyi calls upon the youth the world over to organize and exercise their power to create a new world. He implores them not to waste their energies in petulance and frustration—the world is ripe for the radical changes needed for man&’s survival, and for youth to fritter away their opportunity would be to compound the tragedy and seal the fate of mankind.

Copyright:

1970

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

96 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781497675902

Publisher:

Philosophical Library/Open Road

Date of Addition:

12/12/24

Copyrighted By:

Philosophical Library

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Social Studies, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy

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