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Synopsis
Excerpt from Dynamic Evolution: A Study of the Causes of Evolution and Degeneracy
T 0 say that human intelligence and those other qualities peculiar to modern animals are the product of growth, is to hide behind words. If one generation has less of these qualities than the preceding generation, that less may be due to something lost or omitted; but if it has more than preceding generations had, that more means that something has been created which did not previously exist. Animals grow by assimilating food, but no degree of feeding will produce a poet, a statesman, or an inventor. There is a clear distinction between increasing the quantity of a given material in a given place, and evolving in an animal something which had no previous existence.
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