"In what manner the mental powers were first developed in the lowest organisms, is as hopeless an inquiry as how life itself first originated. These are problems for the distant future, if they are ever solved by man."
p.87, THE DESCENT OF MAN, "Mental Powers," by Charles Darwin (Penguin Classics: 1879, 2004)
Friday, March 14, 2014
THE DESCENT OF MAN....LIFE
"In what manner the mental powers were first developed in the lowest organisms, is as hopeless an inquiry as how life itself first originated. These are problems for the distant future, if they are ever solved by man."
p.87, THE DESCENT OF MAN, "Mental Powers," by Charles Darwin (Penguin Classics: 1879, 2004)