Descartes' error and the future of human life.

1. At the beginning of the 1950s, in an impassioned speech inspired by the threat of nuclear destruction, William Faulkner warned his fellow writers that they had forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself." He asked them to leave no room in their workshops "for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed—love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice."