Mankind in the Making

By: Wells, H. G.

Book Excerpt: attaching pre-eminent importance to certainaspects of human life, and in subordinating systematically and always, all other considerations to these cardinal aspects. It begins with away of looking at life. It insists upon that way, it will regard nohuman concern at all except in that way. And the way, putting the thingas compactly as possible, is to reject and set aside all abstract, refined, and intellectualized ideas as starting propositions, suchideas as Right, Liberty, Happiness, Duty or Beauty, and to hold fast tothe assertion of the fundamental nature of life as a tissue andsuccession of births. These other things may be important, they may beprofoundly important, but they are not primary. We cannot build uponany one of them and get a structure that will comprehend all theaspects of life.For the great majority of mankind at least it can be held that liferesolves itself quite simply and obviously into three cardinal phases.There is a period of youth and preparation, a great insurgence ofRead Mo

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN13: 9798718683462
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"