IN SPEAKING OF MAN, IT IS MOST USEFUL TO MAINTAIN A CLEAR DIStinction between mankind in the aggregate and individual men. Although there are those few, wondrous men who experience true pleasure in knowledge for the sake of knowledge, knowledge for mankind in the aggregate has never been far from the question, "Can man survive?" Sometimes asked directly, most often tangentially, it is an ageless, anxious query. In epochs past it has been addressed most specifically to the not-understood, usually discreet, but threatening circumstance of the moment. Accordingly, in the study of myths and primitive religions, it is clear that man created deities and rites which were projections of his fears and confusions,