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 In many cases those philosophies reflected an

accommodation with nature, a getting along, a unity with

nature, a oneness of man with his environment. But

all have not shared like views: the philosophical

views of those who followed in the Judeo-Christian

tradition, for example, among whom are numbered some of

the greatest economic powers the world has ever seen,

portrayed man not as a part of nature, hardly even a

partner to nature, but rather as the master of nature,

a ruler, the object that all nature serves or must be

made to serve. The idea is strongly evident in a well-

known passage from the Bible.

 So God created man in his own image, in the image
 of God created he him; male and female created
 he them.

 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, be
 fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth,
 and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish
 of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over
 every living thing that moveth upon the earth.(10)

 But man can be neither total master of his fate

nor complete ruler of his surroundings. Actions taken

at any given time are limited by the environment and by

circumstance, and if they change man also must change.

He is not a ruler, but rather a partner to nature, a

part of the total environmental Yet dominion does


 lOGenesis 1: 27-28.

 T1he nature of a people's environment may not
determine the specific nature of the actions that can