expression, ‘under heaven’, found elsewhere in the Old Testament (Exod. 17:14; Deut. 7:24; 9:14). His use of it gives hope to the reader, for it strongly implies that there is an area in which life is not meaningless—above the sun! He mentions four areas of investigation. Here is life in relation to its natural human span. We live in a world that is manifesting the effects of pollution on a vast scale. Scientists speak of impending disaster in terms of hundreds of years, whereas,