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Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
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which a slight variation, if useful, is
preserved, by the term Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation
to man’s power of selection. But the expression often used
by Mr Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate,
and is sometimes equally convenient. Charles Darwin (1872) The Origin Of Species (Sixth edition) edited by R E Leakey. Hill and Wang, New York.
Darwin's contemporaries saw at once what a heavy blow he was striking against piety. His theory entailed the inference that we are here today not because God reciprocates our love, forgives our sins, and attends to our entreaties but because each of our oceanic and terrestrial foremothers was lucky enough to elude her predators long enough to reproduce.
F C Crews (2001) New York Review of Books
The brain is waking and with it the mind is returning. It is as if the Milky Way entered upon some cosmic dance. Swiftly the head-mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one; a shifting harmony of sub-patterns.
C S Sherrington (1940) M
an On His Nature. Penguin Books, London…Arthur of England was a champion of civilization which is misrepresented in the history books…..In those despised Middle Ages of theirs you could become the greatest man in the world, by simply having learning. And it is a mistake to believe that Arthur’s civilization was weak in this famous science of ours. The scientists, although they happened to call them magicians at the time, invented almost as terrible things as we have invented – except that we have become accustomed to theirs by use. The greatest magicians, like Albertus Magnus, Friar Bacon, and Raymond Lully, knew several secrets which we have lost today, and discovered as a side issue what still appears to be the chief commodity of civilization, namely gunpowder. They were honoured for their learning, and Albert the Great was made a bishop. One of them who was called Baptista Porta seems to have invented the cinema - although he sensibly decided not to develop it.
T H White (1958) The Once And Future King. Fontana/Collins. London
Our lives … are a constant dance between ….surges of ancient emotions and their impulsive behaviours on the one hand, and the slower cognitions and admonishments of the evolutionarily later cerebral cortex on the other.
Ian Robertson (1999) Mind Sculpture. Bantam Books, London