Foreword / Clifton Fadiman
From Living philosophies (1931) / Albert Einstein
The face of Gaia / Freeman J. Dyson
Time's winged chariot / John Hersey
The amateur spirit / Daniel J. Boorstin
Toward a fateful serenity / Jacques Barzun
Spero contra spem / Hans Küng
Continuity and change / Elizabeth Longford
Sequence as meaning in life / Norman Cousins
Diversity, change, and amusement / John Kenneth Galbraith
Respect for life / Jane Goodall
Priest in the world / Theodore M. Hesburgh
On erosion / Czeslaw Milosz
Testamentary ruminations / William F. Buckley Jr.
Reflections of a non-positive man / Alistair Cooke
My grown-up ears / M.F.K. Fisher
On the dangerous edge / Robertson Davies.
Staying the course with honor / Stephen Jay Gould
The umbical cord / Thor Heyerdahl
Making sense / Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Cosmic ventures / Norman Mailer
Why are you a Catholic? / Walker Percy
Golems of the twentieth century / Isaac Bashevis Singer
From one generation to another / Elie Wiesel
Toward an imperfect world / Milovan Djilas
To know the future / B.F. Skinner
What I believe / Stephen Spender
Struck dumb / George Steiner
What I think / Lewis Thomas
My credo / Desmond M. Tutu
An evolutionary philosophy for our time / Jonas Salk
It didn't have to be / Sidney Hook
Confronting O'Brien / Steven Weinberg
A philosopher looks back and forward / Mortimer Adler
On naturalism / Edward O. Wilson
Toward a world community / Abba Eban.
