FALL AND RISE
IS GOD IN HISTORY? by Gerald Heard; Faber & Faber. English price, 15/-. ERALD HEARD believes that the fall of man has been a triple process "correlated with a triple recovery." He discovers evidence of fall and redemption in the evolutionary scheme; in the misuse of appetite through a loss of intuitive knowledge, followed by the growth of tradition and the Prophetic Appeal; and in a decline into false faiths, remedied in part by what he calls the Enlightened Mysteries and "the unification of mythos and history." Mr, Heard follows his ideas tenaciously, with the help of an imagination
which takes in the cosmic scheme as well as the cyclic movements of history. His scholarship is wide and full; but he uses a thorny diction, full of: terms taken from scientific uSage and appliéd somewhat roughly to philosophical thinking. As an intellectual exercise, his work is impressive, and often stimulating. Its fundamental weakness, however, is the approach to the subject; the argument is outwards, from an assumption which in effect is a dogma. If the idea of the Fall is accepted, the reasoning may seem persuasive; but the evidence is fitted to the theory, and the same method could be used with equal plausibility to supmort an entirely different concept.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 662, 14 March 1952, Page 10
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213FALL AND RISE New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 662, 14 March 1952, Page 10
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