There seems to be no progress in nature. Man is exhausting the resources of nature as greedily as he oan. So the idea of perpetual progress needs a. lot of thinking about. Then, take his general criticisms of our life and morals to-day. He says "our species is the most destructive and "pugnacious on the planet. If the lower animals formulated a religion, their devil would be a big white man. Our games are mimic battles, our trade cut-throat competition." That fact needed to be pointed out. And
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