Experiences

The author writes "In the first and third parts of 'Experiences' I am the subject as well as the narrator. I the second part I am an observer and an appraiser. This second part is a survey of, and a commentary on, human afffairs in my lifetime." That lifetime, he points out, has been remarkable both for the extension through medical science of the individual's chances of longevity, and for the unprecedented rapidity of change in science and technology, education and public affairs. The personal writings in the first section show how he reached the standpoint from which he observes the world. He adds in the third part a collection of verses he has written at various times, mainly in Greek and Latin.