“If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.”
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Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.
In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.
The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.
