"Life may be a consciously planned experiment on the part of a divine mind----or it may not. But in any case it is legitimate for us to say, on the basis of the known history of life, that mind has become the great progressive feature of life's evolutionary trend. So that, even if our art and religion and science are only our own ways of arranging the jumble of experience, yet in attempting these arrangements we carry on with the main trend of evolution. The biologist finds it exceedingly difficult to believe with the pessimists and sceptics that human life means nothing. It is part of a larger whole, and of a whole with a main upward movement. To continue that trend is to fulfill our evolutionary destiny."
Julian Huxley
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