"To push anything back into the past is equivalent to reducing it to its simplest elements. Traced as far as possible in the direction of their origin, the last fibres of the human aggregate are lost to view and we are merged in our eyes with the very stuff of the universe."
-Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man
Ed. note: I read de Chardin about thirty years ago. I'd like to tell you I understood even half of what he was discussing, but - I didn't. Still, it felt like a valuable exercise. One of these days I might post some of the stuff he said that I thought I understood at the time and highlighted.
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