“ evolution can produce a workman who wants no more space than a snail, and no more light than an owl. ”
G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World (1910). copy citation
Author | G. K. Chesterton |
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Source | What's Wrong with the World |
Topic | evolution owls |
Date | 1910 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1717/1717-h/1717-h.htm |
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“It will be easy for the scientific plutocrat to maintain that humanity will adapt itself to any conditions which we now consider evil. The old tyrants invoked the past; the new tyrants will invoke the future evolution has produced the snail and the owl; evolution can produce a workman who wants no more space than a snail, and no more light than an owl. The employer need not mind sending a Kaffir to work underground; he will soon become an underground animal, like a mole. He need not mind sending a diver to hold his breath in the deep seas; he will soon be a deep-sea animal.”
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