Heredity & the ascent of man / [C.C. Hurst].

  • Charles Chamberlain Hurst
Date:
1935
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    dictory pictures can be reconciled and harmonised. This is possible once it is realised that the astronomical picture is concerned only with the future of matter, while the biological picture represents the future of life and mind. Naturally the astronomical picture must be accepted, for the time being at all events, since it is based on the laws of thermodynamics. Since life and mind represent a later stage of evolution than matter it is necessary that the biological picture should be superimposed on the astronomical picture. In our biological picture we have seen that there are definite indications of the decreasing influence of matter on life and mind, and the natural inference is that in course of time the influence of matter on life and mind will gradually become obliterated and re¬ placed by the influence of mind and its transcendant successors in the great steps of creative evolution. Long before the time comes for the annihilation of matter and the universe, the more primitive matter will have lost its influence on life and mind and their successors. The far distant descendants and remote successors of Man may, by that time, bejndependent and largely free of matter, with infinite possibilities of future progress notwithstanding the complete dissolution of the universe. The superimposition of the biological picture on the astronomical picture thus presents a finite uni-
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