PROGRESS, BIOLOGICAL AND OTHER 



"Usus et impigrae simul experientia mentis 

 Paulatim docuit pedetemtim progredientes." 



— Lucretius. 



"As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each 

 being, all corporeal and mental environments will tend to pro- 

 gress towards perfection." — Charles Darwin. 



"Social progress means the checking of the cosmic process at 

 every step and the substitution for it of another which may be 

 called the ethical process." — T. H. Huxley. 



"It is probable that what hindered Kant from broaching his 

 theory of progress with as much confidence as Condorcet was his 

 perception that nothing could be decisively affirmed about the 

 course of civilization until the laws of its movement had been 

 discovered. He saw that this was a matter for future scientific 

 investigation." —J. B. Bury. 



WHAT is the most fundamental need of man? 

 It would be interesting to conduct a plebis- 

 cite of such a question, a plebiscite of the 

 same sort that was conducted by one of the French 

 newspapers some years ago, to discover the opinions 

 of its readers as to who was the greatest Frenchman 

 of the century. 



When I say the most fundamental need of man, I 

 do not mean those basic needs for food and drink 

 and shelter which he shares with the animals: I 

 mean the most fundamental to him as man, as an 



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