Loss of Eden by Joyce Milton

Author:Joyce Milton [Milton, Joyce]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Premier Digital Publishing
Published: 2011-10-25T04:00:00+00:00

In retrospect, it is unfortunate that the Lindberghs were unable to assuage their grief by making some positive social contribution. In contrast to Harry Guggenheim, who had his crime-fighting committee, and Betty Morrow, who continued to work for the expansion of higher education and for soical welfare agencies like the YMCA, they were not drawn to activism.

Influenced by Charles Morgan's The Fountain, a novel about a young woman whose husband is horribly disfigured during World War I, Anne had retreated into a study of the literature of mysticism and contemplation. Try as she might, she could not bring herself to embrace the doctrines of any established religion. Rather like her childhood friend Corliss Lamont-who resolved his mother's philosophical conundrum by eliminating the religious component and developing the theory of secular humanism-Anne was trying to find a way to be a mystic without God. It is difficult to imagine a lonelier undertaking.

Charles, meanwhile, had his scientific work at Rockefeller. There was a walk-in incubator at the institute where he spent long hours, often sitting until after midnight observing the function of cells through a microscope. He soon succeeded in maintaining a cell culture for 105 days in a circulating flask of his own design, and his next goal was to design an improved model of the perfusion pump, capable of preserving whole organs, beginning with the thyroid gland of a cat. Charles's scientific labors had great potential, not only for his personal satisfaction but in the long run for the conquest of cancer and heart and kidney disease. However, lacking formal education and credentials, he was wholly dependent on his mentor. And although he remained skeptical, to say the least, of some of Carrel's more bizarre pronouncements, he could hardly help but be influenced by his conviction that the rapid pace of technological change had thrown Western civilization into a crisis that threatened its very survival.11

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