An enormous intellectual adventure. In this groundbreaking new book, the American biologist Edward O. Wilson, considered to be one of the world's greatest living scientists, argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge and the need to search for consilience--the proof that everything in our world is organized in terms of a small number of fundamental natural laws that comprise the principles underlying every branch of learning. Professor Wilson, the pioneer of sociobiology and biodiversity, now once again breaks out of the conventions of current thinking. He shows how and why our explosive rise in intellectual mastery of the truths of our universe has its roots in the ancient Greek concept of an intrinsic orderliness that governs our cosmos and the human species--a vision that found its apogee in the Age of Enlightenment, then gradually was lost in the increasing fragmentation and specialization of knowledge in the last two centuries. Drawing on the physical sciences and biology, anthropology, psychology, religion, philosophy, and the arts, Professor Wilson shows why the goals of the original Enlightenment are surging back to life, why they are reappearing on the very frontiers of science and humanistic scholarship, and how they are beginning to sketch themselves as the blueprint of our world as it most profoundly, elegantly, and excitingly is.

93 Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm "For the Equal Rights Amendment"    
94 Ronald Wilson Reagan Brandenburg -  Gate Address
95 Eliezer ("Elie") Wiesel "The Perils of Indifference"
96 Gerald Rudolph Ford - National Address Pardoning Richard M. Nixon

97 Thomas Woodrow Wilson - "For the League of Nations"
98 Lyndon Baines Johnson - "Let Us Continue"
99 Joseph N. Welch - "Have You No Sense of Decency

100 Anna Eleanor Roosevelt - Adopting the Declaration of Human Rights

71 Anita Faye Hill - Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee

72 Thomas Woodrow Wilson - League of Nations Final Address

73 Henry Louis ("Lou") Gehrig - Farewell to Baseball Address

74 Richard Milhous Nixon - Cambodian Incursion Address

75 Carrie Chapman Catt - Address to the U.S. Congressv

76  Edward Moore Kennedy - 1980 DNC Address

77 Lyndon Baines Johnson - On Vietnam and Not Seeking Re-Election

78 Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Commonwealth Club Addressv

79 Thomas Woodrow Wilson - First Inaugural Address

80 Mario Savio - "Sproul Hall Sit-in Speech/An End to History" 

The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd and edited in London. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843.

 

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