Evolution and creation / by Sir Oliver Lodge.

  • Oliver Lodge
Date:
1930
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Credit: Evolution and creation / by Sir Oliver Lodge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    themselves more markedly in some early human ancestors; still mingled with much savagery, much fierceness, many animal traits. For they had before them a most difficult task : they were set in the midst of many and great dangers; they could not always stand upright; they had to strive with adverse circumstances and dangers from the other creatures among whom their lot was cast : and it was only by their intelligence that they managed to survive in the struggle. To those early ancestors of ours we owe much. Well above the mere struggle for sub¬ sistence, however, among those primitive men (some of whose descendants survive almost to this day) we find an imagination which carried them beyond the mere indi¬ cations of the senses, a feeling that really Higher Beings must exist although they were not directly apparent. They sus¬ pected with awe an unknown power by which they were surrounded, a mysterious Something which could be placated by sub¬ mission and sacrifice, and which could be appealed to in emergencies. So developed a sense of worship of the unknown, a dim
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