Nearly a million species of animals are already known. Of these, only a few thousand are endowed with anything which can be called... intelligence, only a few tens with high intelligence, and only one with conceptual thought. In the same way, there are hundreds of known religions; it had better be left to more orthodox writers than myself to enumerate those which can be called high religions. Animal evolution witnesses to a central upward trend of biological progress; it also shows us the retention of low types along with high, the throwing out of blind-alley side branches of specialisation at every level, and sometimes even degeneration. Religious evolution also shows a central progress--but equally the production of bizarre side-branches, the permanent confining of the religious spirit in low-level embodiments, its projection into every conceivable cul-de-sac, its too frequent bending over from upward to downward growth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That those tribes [the Sac and Fox Indians] cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizens ...is certain. They have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their condition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And so the needle pricked her fingers; She fidgeted but didn't go;... A faint forgetfulness of reasons Kept her with him. Time is slow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who will remember happiness? I can recall that they are dead.... I know that heaven cracked one day, And only God knows what they said.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »