Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life by Oswald Spengler

Author:Oswald Spengler [Spengler, Oswald]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781910524176
Publisher: Arktos
Published: 2015-02-14T05:00:00+00:00

[2] As to this ‘evolution’ in general — the Darwinians say that the possession of so admirable a weapon favoured and preserved the species in the struggle for existence. But for the weapon to confer an advantage it must first be ready, and the unfinished weapon would be a useless burden, and so a positive disadvantage, during the course of its evolution — an evolution which, be it noted, has to be regarded as taking thousands of years. And how, is it imagined, did the process start? It is somewhat imbecile to hunt down causes and effects, which after all are forms of man’s thinking and not of the world’s becoming, in the hope of penetrating the secrets of that world.

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