“Progress is not natural. We are geared to go round and round. The reformer should not expect too much. We are only as far along as we are. It is the nature of granite to be hard. And it is the nature of man to be mechanical.”
"The Imitative Instinct", p. 158
Savage Survivals (1916), Savage Survivals in Higher Peoples (Continued)
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Charles Eisenstein, Oral presentation in Baltimore, MD March 2012
Source: The Third Policeman (1967)
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De Profundis (1897)
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Variant: Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.