This evidence would now seem less than clear. But there is an ambiguity at the heart of evolutionary theory itself, where this pursues the timeless 'laws of nature' onto nature's stage of life where time is of the essence, and the timely arrival of an abundance of creatures finds no reckoning in the orbits of mass and force. As if by a new law, the era of life finds refuge in a global moment, hideaway to beasts of a small planet, making engines of machines to consume mass and force. At last we find man whose claim is to cut history from evolution, graduate from all laws into a domain of freedom, as a law unto himself, in the dolmenization of small kingdoms and the self-realization of his individuality. In this ambiguity of chance and necessity we might search for the deeper meaning behind our use of the term 'evolution'.
Introduction Looking backward, the history of civilization reveals a long rhythm.
This mysterious structure hides an unsuspected dynamism of action. The historical emerges from the unknown, the primeval scenes of evolution, and the emergence of the hominid creature with a runaway brain from the Paleolithic. The Eonic Effect, History and Evolution, Enigmas of Design, Facts, Values and Reductionism, Sacred and Secular, Outline and Summary, Kant's Challenge. Our subject is not just evolution, but the transition between 'evolutions', here from 'evolution' to 'history'. We pass from the realm of biological to cultural evolution and need a strategy to prevent the hopeless confusion of the two now current in the social 'sciences'.