For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and pray. Not that I ...care. Only, if such is God's will, and Fate and Evolution--let there be God!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the same doctrine... for a thousand years without finding in the entire history of Rome anything but flat contradiction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Could it not be that just at the moment masculinity has brought us to the brink of nuclear destruction or ecological suicide, wome...n are beginning to rise in response to the Mother's call to save her planet and create instead the next stage of evolution? Can our revolution mean anything else than the reversion of social and economic control to Her representatives among Womankind, and the resumption of Her worship on the face of the Earth? Do we dare demand less?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say tha...t evolution is a natural process, history a human one.... Insofar as we treat man as a part of nature--for instance in a biological survey of evolution--we are precisely not treating him as a historical being. As a historically developing being, he is set over against nature, both as a knower and as a doer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It has only just begun to dawn on us that in our own language alone, not to speak of its many companions, the past history of huma...nity is spread out in an imperishable map, just as the history of the mineral earth lies embedded in the layers of its outer crust. But there is this difference between the record of the rocks and the secrets which are hidden in language: whereas the former can only give us knowledge of outward dead things--such as forgotten seas and the bodily shapes of prehistoric animals--language has preserved for us the inner living history of man's soul. It reveals the evolution of consciousness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The beast exists because it is stronger than the thing that you call evolution. In it is some force of life, a demon, driving it t...hrough millions of centuries. It does not surrender so easily to weaklings like you and me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A jellyfish and a saurian, And caves where the cave men dwell;... Then a sense of law and beauty, And a face turned from the clod-- Some call it Evolution, And others call it God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let us have a fair field! This is all we ask, and we will be content with nothing less. The finger of evolution, which touches eve...rything, is laid tenderly upon women. They have on their side all the elements of progress, and its spirit stirs within them. They are fighting, not for themselves alone, but for the future of humanity. Let them have a fair field!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I, for one, do not think homosexuality is the latest advance over heterosexuality in the scale of human evolution. Homosexuality i...s a sickness, just as are baby-rape or wanting to become head of General Motors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Evolution was in a strange mood when that creation came along.... It makes one wonder just where the plant world leaves off and th...e animal world begins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »