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Outside the Circles of Time - Review
TauMelchizedek:
It is actually not a quote from Darwin, see:
`It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change.`
The earliest known appearance of this basic statement is a paraphrase of Darwin in the writings of Leon C. Megginson, a management sociologist at Louisiana State University. Megginson's paraphrase (with slight variations) was later turned into a quotation. See the summary of Nicholas Matzke's findings in "One thing Darwin didn't say: the source for a misquotation" at the Darwin Correspondence Project. The statement is incorrectly attributed, without any source, to Clarence Darrow in Improving the Quality of Life for the Black Elderly: Challenges and Opportunities : Hearing before the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, first session, September 25, 1987 (1988).
http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/six-things-darwin-never-said
Best wishes,
David
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--- Quote from: "the_spurious_simon_iff" ---But yes, this type of religious schism has repeated itself all over the shop and will probably continue to do so ad infinitum. However, perhaps we see some wisdom in Darwin's very own words in relation to Mahayana, where; "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, or the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change."
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I've never come across that quote by Darwin before, but it's food for thought. Thanks for posting it.
Best wishes,
Michael.
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MichaelStaley:
Thanks for the elucidation, David.
Best wishes,
Michael.
the_spurious_simon_iff:
It did strike me as being very odd for him, or just a random one-off as it were. Although despite its appropriated origin it sits well with what I put it next to.
Tiger:
Outside the Circles of Time moves one outside petty cycles and expands consciousness beyond the ordinary bounds of space and time . Some believe they are living in whatever time it is, some believe we are living in the Aeon of Horus, others in an Aeon without a word, some still are seeking a word others are still living under the influence of the Aeon of Osiris; so it is believed. Grant takes us to the utmost spaces, like the Lord of Oceanus from a far off base where the calm lackadaisical playful ocean changes and transforms into a raging vertigo shaking the painstaking and plodding with a current that overleaps the dam of data and forces the judges of poetry that counted the words to swim.
lashtal:
--- Quote from: "Tiger" ---Grant takes us to the utmost spaces, like the Lord of Oceanus from a far off base where the calm lackadaisical playful ocean changes and transforms into a raging vertigo shaking the painstaking and plodding with a current that overleaps the dam of data and forces the judges of poetry that counted the words to swim.
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Er, quite.
Tell you what, fellow site members, I think this thread has exhausted itself, fascinating though the recent bits about what Darwin did or didn't say are.
I see that Mika has opened a new thread as a branch of this one, but focusing on the QBLH, which is pleasing.
It seems clear that we won't be seeing a detailed, factual response here to IanRons' review although I'd welcome one. Comments are enabled on the Review on this site and I'd ask that anyone with a point of view they'd like to share regarding its content records it there.
This has been a fascinating, though occasionally ill-tempered, thread but it had run its course a number of posts ago.
Thanks to all for participating. This thread is now Locked.
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