Tendency

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Excerpt from Tendency: The Effect of Trend and Drift in the Development of Life Man is more like God than anything else in the world. The making of the future world is man's business, but man himself is, as yet, in the making, and the kind of world he is to make will depend upon the kind of man he becomes. The value of any particular civilization or the eminence of any age of the world depends upon where it finds man in the progress of his development. No civilization can be great whose men are inferior, and no age can be illustrious whose manhood is tame. In a magazine article, Mr. Thomas A. Edison is reported as saying: "We are only animals. We are coming out of the dog stage and getting a glimpse of our environment. We don't know, we just suspect a few things. It will take an enormous evolution of our brains to bring us anywhere." There may be some truth in this statement. If so, it is the truth that was said long ago, and in a far nobler way, by him who wrote: "It is not yet made manifest what we shall be." It is the man that makes the age. It is the people that create the civilization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.