From An Evolutionary Point Of View, Man

Instead Of Standing On The Shore And Proving To Ourselves That The Ocean Cannot Carry Us, Let Us Venture On Its Waters Just To See.

A Breeze Passes In The Night. When Did It Spring Up? Whence Does It Come? Whither Is It Going? No Man Knows.

And Now, As A Germination Of Planetary Dimensions, Comes The Thinking Layer Which Over Its Full Extent Develops And Intertwines Its Fibres, Not To Confuse And Neutralise Them But To Reinforce Them In The Living Unity Of A Single Tissue.

As A Result Of Changes Which, Over The Last Century, Have Modified Our Empirically Based Pictures Of The World And Hence The Moral Value Of Many Of Its Elements, The "human Religious Ideal" Inclines To Stress Certain Tendencies And To Express Itself In Terms Which Seem, At First Sight, No Longer To Coincide With The "christian Religious Ideal".

Individual Human Beings Are So Subtly Developed Through The Centuries That It Is Strictly Impermissible To Compare Any Two Men Who Are Not Contemporaries-that Is To Say Are Taken From Two Quite Different Times.