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darwin-online.org.uk/manuscripts.html If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone has ever had, I’d give it to Darwin, ahead of Newton and Einstein and everyone else. In a single stroke, the idea of evolution by natural selection unifies the realm of life, meaning, and purpose with the realm of space and time, cause and effect, mechanism and physical law. But it is not just a wonderful scientific idea. It is a dangerous idea. My admiration for Darwin’s magnificent idea is unbounded, but I, too, cherish many of the ideas and ideals that it seems to challenge, and want to protect them. ~ Page 21 (Daniel Dennett) Excerpt: Darwin's Dangerous Idea

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My Sorrow, when she's here with me, Thinks these dark days of autumn rain Are beautiful as days can be; She loves the bare, the withered tree; She walks the sodden pasture lane. Her pleasure will not let me stay. She talks and I am fain to list: ............................. ~ Robert Frost

The Artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to inf an antidote for the emptiness of existence ~ Woodly Allen

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Of winter's lifeless world each tree Now seems a perfect part; Yet each one holds summer's secret Deep down within its heart. ~Charles G. Stater

. . . . After Aristotle died, in 322 B.C.E, many of his students formed the Peripatetic school, a group of wandering lecturers named after the Greek ‘peripatetikos’ (walking). The ancient sages of India and Nepal would stay at home during the rainy season, but as soon as it ended, they too would be in motion, thinking and teaching. The Buddha, Jesus, Augustine, Rousseau, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Emerson, Thoreau, James, Rimbaud -- all of them, and many more, were walkers. Thoreau, one of the truly greatest wanderer-thinkers, writes, “Methinks that the moment my legs begin to move my thoughts begin to flow.” The twentieth-century analytic philosopher Ledwig Wittgenstein often visited his collaborator and friend Bertrand Russell in the early evenings, and Wittgenstein would pace the floor of Russell’s apartment for hours, cogitating and ambulating. As the evening grew late, he would tell Russell that he planned to commit suicide when he left, presumably when his feet came to rest. So Russell would urge him to stay, on the move -- alive. ~ Page132

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