How Andre Teissier-duCros came to translate Jacques Caubet's "The Fifth Rung on Jacob's Ladder" and to be entrusted with the book's massive Bibliography.
I have known Jacques Caubet since 1967 and have followed and discussed with him how his Neo-Thomist/Teilhardian approach to human development applies to corporate strategy, R&D management and human resources promotion. His firm, HEF, which he brought to world leadership in the market of anti-corrosion, anti-friction surface treatments and then gave away to his employees when he retired, was and is a living demonstration of the success of his ideas and the contagion of his faith. The surface treatment processes Jacques Caubet and the HEF team invented are now applied in each of the 40 million automobiles manufactured worldwide, and are the key reason why, today, a piston engine lasts virtually for ever. Jacques Caubet was one of the experts gathered by the French Government in 1967-72 in a National Committee for Industrial Innovation, the recommendations of which played since then a major role in the growing competitiveness of the French industry. I was the Committee's reporter.
It took me four years to translate the book. My original contribution consisted in a massive bibliography (Caubet's culture is universal from all theology, philosophy and scientific point of views), in the introduction to the English translation (relating how in 1981 I moderated Caubet's joint venture with a major Indian manufacturer of automobile components while Caubet and R. R. Ratnam, the Indian Chairman and CEO who was also a Brahman, were discussing theologic issues between Judeo-Christianism and Hinduism), and in a serious work of adaptation.
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I do hope you will order the book: it is a most unique piece of reference on the alleged confrontation between Science and Religion, and it expresses some very challenging ideas.
Sincerely,
ATC