The Future of Man (TB 386)

332, 4 pp. "The future of man...is much the most interesting of teilhard de Chardin's books. He held that what his fellow biologists call the higher animals are higher, not only in the scale of biological complexity, but on any scale of values which makes sense to us . And on the scale we are , of course, highest among the animals. This is an absolute scale evolution has labored most elaborately on God's behalf to produce animals is expressed in his possession of mind. " Man's mind enables him to form concepts ,use language, build societies and cultures; above all, it enables him to work in intellectual community with others. Human groups...are societies in which knowledge is fixed and handed on , and in which the intellectual and emotional life of each man's talents, and would become their ultimate realization."