The Sad Evolutionary History of Humans

I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of history. Out of the darkness of prehistoric ages man emerges with the marks of his lowly origin strong upon him. He is a brute, only more intelligent than the other brutes, a blind prey to impulses, which as often as not led him to destruction; a victim to endless illusions, which make his mental existence a terror and a burden, and fill his physical life with barren toil and battle.

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Come out of the wilderness as a brute, filled with terrors, and constantly subject to a cruel world.

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 Collected Essays
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Huxley , Thomas Henry (2011-12-03), Collected Essays, Retrieved on 2012-06-05
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