title: Seeds of Destruction
author:  Thomas Merton 
description: Of all the words that have been written on race relations, those in this book seem the most powerful and unassailable <i>Virginia Pasley, Newsday</i>
zlib_text: Seeds of Destruction 
  
  Books by Thomas Merton 
  The Ascent to Truth 
  The Behavior of Titans 
  Bread in the Wilderness 
  Disputed Questions 
  Life and Holiness 
  The Living Bread 
  The New Man 
  No Man ls an Island 
  Seeds of Contemplation 
  The Seven Storey Mountain 
  The Sign of Tonas 
  The Silent Life 
  The Secular /ournal of Thomas Merton 
  Thoughts in Solitude 
  The Waters of Siloe 
  POETRY 
  Emblems of a Season of Fury 
  A Man in the Divided Sea 
  The Strange Islands 
  Selected Poems 
  The Tears of the Blind Lions 
  The Tower of Babel 
  Figures for an Apocalypse 
  Thirty Poems 
  TR.ANSLA TIO NS 
  Clement of Alexandria 
  The Wisdom of the Desert 
  
  Destructio
  By THOMAS MERTON 
  N E  w 
  Yo R K j Farrar, Straus and Giroux 
  
  Copyright© 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 
  by the Abbey of Gethsemani 
  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 64-195 l 5 
  First Printing, l 964 
  Acknowledgement is made to the editors of 
  COMMONWEAL, JUBILEE, RAMPARTS, and BLACK­
  FRIARS in whose pages these articles first 
  appeared in somewhat difi