Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippett
This collection of essays, written during World War I, was said to lay the foundation for all of Teilhard de Chardin's later ideas. The introduction to the first essay, "Cosmic Life," was read aloud during the interview.
So these essays they really...you feel like the foundation and all his later ideas they already have the seeds in those essays.
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Episode: [Unedited] Ursula King with Krista Tippett
This collection of essays, written during World War I, was said to lay the foundation for all of Teilhard de Chardin's later ideas. The introduction to the first essay, "Cosmic Life," was read aloud during the interview.
So these essays they really...you feel like the foundation and all his later ideas they already have the seeds in those essays.
What follows springs from an exuberance of life and a yearning to live...it is written to express an impassioned vision of the earth and in an attempt to find a solution for the doubts that beset my action because I love the universe its energies its secrets and its hopes. And because at the same time I am dedicated to God, the only origin, the only issue, the only term.
My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and psychic strands of his being to all that surrounds him.