What Book Are You Currently Reading?

**NSXD60** · 04-21-2023, 03:05 AM

None, I'm awaiting the sequel to 1984, thinking Orwell's heirs might consider calling it someting like 80 Year Old Spoor.

**lei.talk** · 05-01-2023, 09:54 PM

click-on this image to read his book

Rudolf Virchow

All attempts to transform our problems into doctrines, to introduce our theories as the bases of a plan of education [as Haeckel had proposed], particularly the attempt simply to depose the Church, and to replace its dogma by a religion of descent, these attempts, I say, must fail. Therefore, let us be moderate; let us exercise resignation, so that we give even the most treasured problems which we put forth, always as problems only, and that we say it a hundred and again a hundred times : Do not take this for confirmed truth — be prepared that, perhaps, this may be changed. . . .Only ten years ago, when a skull was found, perhaps in peat, or in lake dwellings, or in some old cave, it was believed that marks of a wild and quite undeveloped state were seen in it. Indeed, we were then scenting monkey-air; but this has died out more and more .... But I must say that one fossil monkey skull or man ape skull which really belonged to a human proprietor has never been found. We cannot teach, we cannot designate it as a revelation of science, that man descends from the ape, or from any other animal.