REFLECTIONS ON THE VERGE OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

The famous American writer and poet E.E.Cummings, who was a Norton-Harjcs ambulance driver in France during World War I, said once that the future struggle for mankind "would be between the world of the bom and the world of the made". I thought that he summed up in a few clever words the dilernma our civilized and technologically advanccd world of the 1990's faces. Indced, while we enjoy the fruits of science and technology, we are faced with the problem of endangered species; we are crowded into burgeoning cities encirclcd by polluted waters and air; and we look: for a remedy for the iııs that we have brought upon ourselves, espcciaııy within the second half of the twentieth century.