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| | BRAUDEL PAPERS 97 |
 | | We may better consider our seed because of the humanistic explorations of men like Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) and William McNeill, one of this centurys leading historians, awarded the Erasmus Prize in Amsterdam last December. |
 | | We are grateful for this opportunity to publish "Paths of Discovery," adapted from his Erasmus Prize lecture, a courageous and innovative summation of scientific and historical thought, weaving together apparent opposites, ideas whose initial contradiction gradually converge. |
 | | The first convergence is between an animist or religious world view and the scientific view, one giving birth to the other, belief and negation meeting on the ground of common action to enhance the survival of man and to give meaning to his experience. |
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