Of Time, Passion, and Knowledge

'Only a wayfarer born under unruly stars would attempt to put into practice in our epoch of proliferating knowledge the Heraclitean dictum that `men who love wisdom must be inquirers into very many things indeed.'' Thus begins this remarkable interdisciplinary study of time by a master of the subject. And while developing a theory of 'time as conflict,' J. T. Fraser does offer 'many things indeed'--an enormous range of ideas about matter, life, death, evolution, and value.