Autobiography of Values Author:Charles Augustus Lindbergh This is Charles A. Lindbergh's story of his own life. It is the story of the events he caused, and their effects on him. It is the story of the values he learned as a boy in Minnesota and how they were enhanced or changed, or supplanted as he lived through a century dominated by science and war and technology and nationalism. &nb... more »sp; He was probably the greatest aviator of all time. He was certainly the most celebrated young man in American history.
He was also a scientist, soldier, conservationist, and adviser to industry and government on flight. He was a superb writer, as this book so dramatically confirms. Autobiography of Values is a rare work, the spare and beautiful telling of an American life that belongs with the great memoirs in our literature: Franklin, Adams, Steffens.
The depth of Lindbergh's feeling for life, at times poetical and mystical, is shown by him in settings around the earth: Africa, the Pacific islands, Europe, Mexico, England, France, Germany, Russia, India. At the end, he was still a questing man, an adventurer in space and time and spirit. with 81 photographs
FromAutobiography of Values: I believe there is wisdom in the primitive lying at greater depths than the intellect has plumbed, a wisdom from which civilized man can learn and without whose application his survival time is limited. It is wisdom born of instinct, intuition, and genetic memory, held by the subconscious rather than the conscious mind, too subtle and elusive to be more than partially comprised within limits of rationality.... The growing knowledge of science does not refute man's intuition of the mystical. Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or in time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes. Since man's intellect seems bound to man, at least in earthly guise, the search for the form of God begins in the form of man. The form of man is everything. What else is the form of God?« less