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Parabola's Summer 1981 issue: The Dream of Progress We are faced with serious threats to what we have come to think of as our permanent "way of life." Tensions between the energy-deprived, the energy producers, and the energy consumers increase daily and threaten access to the dwindling resources on which our civilization has come to depend. Our cities, once the proud focal points of that civilization, have in many cases deteriorated to the extent that they are focal points of crime and violence. The family structure, so much a part of our idealized image of moral and economic stability, appears to be losing its holding power. Our educational system, the central instrument by which upward mobility was to have been forever maintained, has all too often been a microcosmic version of a general stagnation and disintegration. In the face of all this the great institutions of religion, government, and law, to which we have committed a great portion of ourmoral and physical liberty in the interest of a general orderly process, have not only been unable to provide solutions to our problems but have often contributed to them. What, we find ourselves asking, has happened to our system, and what can we do to avoid self-destruction? --from "Towards a New Perspective: Human Life as Earth's Voice" by David Leeming Cover: "Victorin Making His Flight" Unknown artist, eighteenth century. Frontispiece of Restif de la Bretonne, La Décourverte australe, par un Homme-volant, ou le Dédale francais, Vol. 1 (Leipzig, 1781). Rare Books and Manuscripts Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundation. In this issue:
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