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Most Of Us Have Lost That Sense Of Unity Of Biosphere And Humanity Which Would Bind And Reassure Us All With An Affirmation Of Beauty. Most Of Us Do Not Today Believe That Whatever The Ups And Down Of Detail Within Our Limited Experience, The Larger Whole Is Primarily Beautiful.

Evolution Has Long Been Badly Taught. In Particular, Students - And Even Professional Biologists - Acquire Theories Of Evolution Without Any Deep Understanding Of What Problem These Theories Attempt To Solve. They Learn But Little Of The Evolution Of Evolutionary Theory.

Desired Substance, Things, Patterns, Or Sequences Of Experience That Are In Some Sense "good" For The Organism - Items Of Diet, Conditions Of Life, Temperature, Entertainment, Sex, And So Forth - Are Never Such That More Of The Something Is Always Better Than Less Of The Something. Rather, For All Objects And Experiences, There Is A Quantity That Has Optimum Value. Above That Quantity, The Variable Becomes Toxic. To Fall Below That Value Is To Be Deprived.

We Do Not Know Enough About How The Present Will Lead Into The Future.

I Shall Argue That The Problem Of Grace Is Fundamentally A Problem Of Integration And What Is To Be Integrated Is The Diverse Parts Of The Mind - Especially Those Multiple Levels Of Which One Extreme Is Called 'consciousness' And The Other The 'unconscious'