¶ Evolution (2B)
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know how. His hair grows-- or doesn’t grow-- and he knows not how or why. We go from seven pounds to 170 so relatively slowly that we don’t think of this as evolutionary. Between World Wars I and II American men unexpectedly increased their height by three inches.
"Up to and including my father’s life the average distance covered by man in his lifetime locomotion was 30,000 miles. In my lifetime thus far I have covered three million miles, a 100-fold increase. Astronauts knock off that distance in three days flight. I don’t think we tend to accredit at all the fact that we might go on to have some other form of living in the Universe.
“I find man tending to ignore, however, what seems to be any kind of mass development. He is tremendously apprehensive of losing individuality. He shouldn’t be. When he cooperates and coordinates he is not losing individuality. In fact, at that point he is beginning to demonstrate individuality to the only degree to which it is important: his very ability to dedicate himself to a cause is manifest of his individual freedom to do so.”
¶ Citations
- AAUM Journal, pp.174-175, May’65
