ABSTRACT
The history of science as well as the history of religion is filled with accounts of the way the future lays a life-giving or a deadening hand on the present. Evolutionary content which can quicken the process of evolutionary thought is to be found in the exploration of children's minds, minds already attuned to a world about which the authors have learned with wonder and alarm after the authors have become old enough to know how strange it is. Time is now measured in generations, and men dream of new journeys, infinite extensions of the pilgrimages to Mecca. Straining to meet a growing mind that has been born into a world already transformed, begets a new kind of creativity in those who teach. The new science of ethology provides clues to some of the instinctive variations that may be necessary conditions for profound individual differences.
