Modernity Sees Humanity As Having Ascended From What Is Inferior To It - Life Begins In Slime And Ends In Intelligence - Whereas Traditional Cultures See It As Descended From Its Superiors. As The Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins Put The Matter: We Are The Only People Who Assume That We Have Ascended From Apes. Everybody Else Take It For Granted That They Are Descended From Gods.
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Modernity Sees Humanity As Having Ascended From
Huston Smith
Modernity Sees Humanity As Having Ascended From What Is Inferior To It - Life Begins In Slime And Ends In Intelligence - Whereas Traditional Cultures See It As Descended From Its Superiors. As The Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins Put The Matter: We Are The Only People Who Assume That We Have Ascended From Apes. Everybody Else Take It For Granted That They Are Descended From Gods.
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