If man and his powers are not necessarily the highest perfectible reach of Nature for Nature, man can nevertheless rise beyond the limits of his heritage and environment to intervene and redirect the very forces which created him and which push him onward.
 Nikos Kazantzakis, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (1938). copy citation

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Author Nikos Kazantzakis
Source The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel
Topic power environment
Date 1938
Language English
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Note Translated by Kimon Friar
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