Of Flight and Life
I “grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines... [but I have] seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve . . . We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow . . . Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians."
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY LINDBERGH on front free endpaper to his assistant: “To Ethel Cunningham in appreciation of her dedicated and extraordinarily perceptive and able assistance with a much larger and two-generations later book. Charles A. Lindbergh, March, 1970."
Written in the wake of the atomic bomb and World War II, Of Flight and Life is Lindbergh’s impassioned warning against the dangers of scientific materialism and the powers of technology.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine with a little bit of soiling to front pastedown; tape repairs to verso of dust jacket; a few ink marks on creases at bottom of front panel. A handsome copy with a long and interesting inscription.
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