“ The earth is as old as we are, no older. How could it be older? Nothing exists except through human consciousness. ”
George Orwell, 1984 (1949). copy citation
| Author | George Orwell |
|---|---|
| Source | 1984 |
| Topic | age earth consciousness |
| Date | 1949 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt |
Context
“Oceania is the world.»
«But the world itself is only a speck of dust. And man is tiny helpless! How long has he been in existence? For millions of years the earth was uninhabited.»
«Nonsense. The earth is as old as we are, no older. How could it be older? Nothing existsexcept through human consciousness.»
«But the rocks are full of the bones of extinct animals —mammoths and mastodons and enormous reptiles which lived here long before man was ever heard of.»
«Have you ever seen those bones, Winston?” source
«But the world itself is only a speck of dust. And man is tiny helpless! How long has he been in existence? For millions of years the earth was uninhabited.»
«Nonsense. The earth is as old as we are, no older. How could it be older? Nothing existsexcept through human consciousness.»
«But the rocks are full of the bones of extinct animals —mammoths and mastodons and enormous reptiles which lived here long before man was ever heard of.»
«Have you ever seen those bones, Winston?” source
