On January 2, 1940, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wrote a short letter from Peking to his friend, .Father d’Ouince, to which he attached a text he wrote at Christmas 1939, entitled: “The hour of choice – a possible meaning of war”. He wonders about the second world war which is beginning and asks himself if it takes into account his vision of a Humanity on the move…
This short essay (published by the Ediitions du Seuil in the complete works Tome VII “L’activation de l’énergie” – p. 17) allows to discover the aspect of the typed writings (letters and essays) of Pierre Teilhard
