Chains and links.(Opinion)

KMWorld | June 1, 2004| | Copyright

Over 60 years ago, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, a professor at Johns Hopkins, gave a series of lectures that resulted in his classic work, The Great Chain of Being. Its central aim was to show that there was a: 

 
      ... plan and structure of the world which, through the Middle Ages 
  and down to the late eighteenth century ... most educated men were to 
  accept without question--the conception of the universe as a "Great 
  Chain of Being," composed of an immense, or ... infinite number of 
  links ranging in hierarchical order from the meagerest kind of 
  existents ... ...

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