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It is always the individual who thinks. society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. the evolution of human reasoning from the naive thinking of primitive man to the more subtle thinking of modern science took place within society. however, thinking itself is always an achievement of individuals.
What is conserved in the ground? stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. never wood objects, no fabric or skins. that completely skews our notions about primitive man.
Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man
If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities appear to be unbounded.
Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become their master, so is contemporary man faced by this incomprehensible, which disorders his calculations.
The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them, saw in every terrifying manifestation some sinister force expressly directed against him; and as ignorance and fear are the parents of all superstition, the troubled fancy of primitive man wove the god idea.
The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.
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