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Excerpt from Universe and You
The Universe and You is an outgrowth of Neal's years of teaching at Knox College and then at Tufts College. His courses, known as Man's Place in Nature and Theoretical Biology, evolved through the advances of science and the questions of his students. Their problems suggested the need of this book. It might be described as a course in the emer gence of philosophy out of biology. It is something more than philosophy; it is the birth of re?ection about man and the world from the direct encounter with science, at the frontier of its enquiry into truth. It raises the wish that the philosopher latent in every scientist might come to a similar clarity and candor in the statement of what remains to be known.
Death leaves no thinker the choice at what stage his work shall be interrupted. Some manuscripts have been left all but complete; some have been barely outlined. In this case the plan was made, and much of the writing done; but there were large gaps, and the question was an open one whether a completion could be attempted. In the nature of the work, it was not a biological supplement that was needed; nor yet a philosophical supplement. It was the carrying out of a point of View, characteristic of the author, into a wealth of material embracing parts of the area of many sciences. It could be done, if at all, only by one to whom that view was second nature.
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