This book is a symposium on “Bridges for Cultural Understanding,” composed of sixty-seven contributions. Each of the sixty-seven papers represents a chapter in the book. I take the liberty of calling this a cultural U. N. Men of Science, Men of God, Philosophers each representing different and differing fields, varied training, opposing emphasis attempt here to orient themselves to one goal. The topics are exhaustive, but they are naturally not integrated in this volume. The hope is that someday the discussions will be published.

Although almost five years have elapsed since the reading of these papers at the Sixth Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion, the papers are no less timely, in fact, to repeat, at this time, some of these papers is to capture the spirit of late 1945, which was a spirit of dedication to understanding. It would be a redundancy to state that the need for cultural understanding is increasing in importance. But it is imperative that this worthy effort be continued, although the prospect