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beyond. With such infrastructure all that is needed is the habit
of thinking holistically and the will to unite; and the longer the
first is delayed and the second is lacking the more precarious
our prospects of survival become.

The urgent need for these developments to be met, however,
is obstructed by difficulties that appear almost insurmountable.
The situation is not simply perilous in terms of terrestrial and
meteorological conditions, but also threatens to be psychologically
intractable. This aspect of the problem is next to be considered.


NOTES
1. Cf. B. de Spinoza, Ethics, Part II, Prop. 13, Schol., Lemma 7,
Schol., and Epistle 32 in idem, Ethics and Selected Letters, trans. S. Shirley
( Indianapolis: HHackett, 1982); E. E. Harris, Salvation from
Despair ( The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1973), chapter 5, 1-3.
2. Cf. W. Leibniz, Monodology, trans. R. Latta ( Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1898).
3. Cf. Immanuel Kant, Kritik der reinen Vernünft ( Leipzig: Felix
Meiner, 1926), A115-130, B130-140; idem, Kritik der Urteilskraft
( Leipzig: Felix Meiner, 1924), section 75.
4. Cf. E. E. Harris, The Spirit of Hegel ( Atlantic Highlands, N.J.:
Humanities Press, 1993), chapters 7-8, 10-11.
5. Cf. E. E. Harris, Hypothesis and Perception ( London: Allen and
Unwin, 1970; reprint, Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press,
1996), chapters 7 and 11.
6. Cf. Stuart A. Kauffman, The Origins of Order ( Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1993); E. E. Harris, The Foundations of Metaphysics in
Science ( London: Allen and Unwin, 1965; reprint, Lanham, Md.: Uni-
versity Press of America, 1983; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities
Press, 1993), pp. 242-251.

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