r, Cosmic Joy and Local Pain BY THE SAME AUTHOR Mayonnaise and the Origin of Life The Wine of Life Energy Flow in Biology Ego Niches Foundations of Bioenergetics Cosmic Joy and Local Pain Musmgs of a Mystic Scientist HAROLD J. MOROWITZ CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS New York Selections from The Phenomenon of Man, by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, translated by Bernard Wall, copyright 1955 by Edi¬ tions du Seuil, copyright © 1959 in the English translation by William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd and Elarper & Row, Publishers, Inc., are reprinted by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. Quotations from “Pantheism,” by Alasdair MacIntyre, are reprinted with permission of the publisher from Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Paul Edwards, Editor in Chief, volume 6, page 33, copyright © 1967 by Macmillan, Inc. The quotation from fulius Robert Mayer, Prophet of Energy, by Robert Bruce Lindsay, copyright © 1973, is reprinted with per¬ mission of Pergamon Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Morowitz, Harold J. Cosmic joy and local pain. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Science—Philosophy. 2. Religion and science—1946- . I. Title. Q175.M867 1987 401 86—26020 ISBN 0-684—18443—5 Copyright © 1987 Elarold J. Morowitz All rights reserved Published simultaneously in Canada by Collier Macmillan Canada, Inc. Composition by Maryland Linotype Composition, Baltimore, Maryland Manufactured by Fairfield Graphics, Fairfield, Pennsylvania First Edition To the students of Pierson College Classes of 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, . 1988, and 1989, without whose constant concern and attention this hook would have keen completed years earlier ‘‘The only way you can know your limits is to exceed them.”