Not many would think that a Pilobolus and Humanity are common yet Loren Eiseley persuades the idea that the two are comparable and gives one a negative characterization. In the Spore Bearers by Loren Eiseley, we are presented with multiple anecdotes that propose that humanity has prospered through instincts. On the other hand, Eiseley claims that a Pilobolus has prospered as humanity has but it has done so with a greater success. Each roaming the world in their own unique way has allowed them to be alive for so long. A Pilobolus, which happens to be one of the fastest living things alive, which allows them to travel and start their cycle of life. Humanity is a civilization that has prospered for many years and, according to Eiseley, ‘maybe’ …show more content…
Us humans can only achieve a greater success if we continue to advance. Knowledge is a finite resource that we understand after every new accomplishment is reached. Even Eiseley states, “Moreover the whole invisible pyramid is itself the incidental product of a primitive seed capsule, the human brain, whose motivations alter with time and circumstance.”(Page #9) In other words, Eiseley doesn’t disagree with the fact that humans can succeed depending on the circumstance presented to them. For instance, if humanity advances technologically there could be a point in which they use that advancement to better the lifestyle of civilization. When Eiseley says ‘the human brain, whose motivations alter with time and circumstances.’ You can infer that he believes that the brain’s knowledge, so basically humanity’s knowledge, can be used to change people’s motivation on the presence of life. For instance, finding another planet similar to Earth isn’t impossible, and when the time comes humanities motivation would be driven and contempt due to the possibility of finding a place in which we could prosper for more decades, centuries to …show more content…
(Page #8) They discovered much advancement and could be considered a Golden Age- An age in which success and many academic achievements are achieved-but one day to another they disappeared leaving behind most of their academic finding. Eiseley states, “ Each was self-contained. Each, with the limited amount of wealth and energy at its disposal, placed its greatest emphasis upon some human dream, some lost philosophy, some inner beyond the satisfaction of the needs of the body. Each, in turn, vanished.” (Page #8) In other words, Eiseley is trying to infer that many past civilizations have achieved success but nobody knows what happen to them afterwards because they all disappeared. For instance, the Olmec achieved success and disappeared. The same thing happened to the Mayans, a civilization that also achieved success. On the other hand, Is Eiseley foreshadowing that if we reach our golden age we would also vanish? He could be thinking that the Pilobolus fungi might achieve success as us one day. Yet he still feels strong about Pilobolus being a far better species than mankind. Not, in the sense that they have achieved great technological advancement. In a way that they could understand a complexity which humanity still hasn’t unmasked. The complexity being that they could travel to another exterior with a far greater
Mark Twain is one of the best-known writers of all time, writing things that are most commonly known for being humorous and relaxed. In “The Lowest Animal”, Twain discusses his final outcome after completing a series of experiments he undertook at the London Zoological Gardens. His end result is Charles Darwin’s theory that man evolved from earlier ancestors, but flipped completely upside down. This theory is widely known, but Twain argues a different one. In this essay, he uses affective reasoning and facts from his experiments to back up his claim, all while using Aristotle’s appeals and logical fallacies.
theory he is trying to say about human motivation is that the we are lazy and
Darwin: A Norton Critical Edition, Second Edition ; ed. by Philip Appleman; copyright 1979, 1970 by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
The author Dr. Irwin Edman opens his 1920 book Human Traits and Their Significance by noting that throughout civilization “two factors have remained constant” (ix). One of these factors is “the physical order of the universe”—or Nature—and the other is “the native biological equipment of man”—or human nature (ix). Together these two ideals have formed modern civilization—as Dr. Edman puts it “there is nothing new under the sun. Matter and men remain the same” (ix). Since the beginning of time there have been essential human traits—inborn distinguishing qualities--common to every society and time period. This commonality is shown in no better way than through characters in literature. Literature has the ability to mirror the society that it was written in, and by surveying this literature readers are able to discover universal human traits displayed by the characters.
This earth has so many wonderful things to offer, including what is still unknown. The responsibility to keep this earth safe lands in the hands of mankind. Humanity may not exist if the responsibility is ignored.. In the chapter “For the Love of Life,” published in the non fiction book The Future of Life (2002), naturalist and Pulitzer Prize winning author Edward O. Wilson discusses the effects the nature, including what is still unknown, has on the prosperity of mankind and argues that humanity has an obligation to preserve nature because of its genetic unity. Wilson supports his claim by justifying the reasons for conserving and preserving nature including how technology can never fully replace it, describing habitat preferences as a component of biophilia - which is explains human’s predisposition to love
And so, Edutopia, my utopia, solidified in my mind. Its first and foremost priority was that of an education, and not merely of a high school or undergraduate level. Students of Edutopia would have every opportunity to follow whatever educational pursuits they desired, on Mars. I set out to build a society that respected intellect. And throughout the next trimester, I did.
He is saying that, theoretically, the growth of reason would come with knowledge. People would be less inclined to have a lot of children because they would no longer be afraid of losing them to unnatural things. People would then be more inclined to focus on their happiness and expanding their
In Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s book This Earth of Mankind, the depiction of the Natives in this novel permits the author to expose the effects of colonization by the Europeans in Indonesia. Throughout this novel, the Natives are consistently portrayed as the social group, who are deemed inferior in comparison to the Europeans, which contributes to their oppression. The two characters that represent this attribute are Nyai Ontosoroh and Minke.
Bradbury may inflict fear among the reader but he also forces the to think about what humanity could become. He brings forth the idea that humanity has not reached it’s full mental capacity. The idea of mental telepathy being possible is shown in this book. It makes the reader consider possibilities that would otherwise be easily dismissed (Grimsley). Advancing in human mental capacity does not only mean creating new technology though, it includes understanding when advancement needs to take a break. "Because I've seen that what these Martians had was just as good as anything we'll ever hope to have. They stopped where we should have stopped a hundred years ago." (Bradbury 212) The astronauts that had the privilege of going to Mars realized
The human nature can be seen to have adapted to all the situations in the environment while showing whatever the circumstances, there is always an advancement in the human nature as they get smarter and adapt to their own surroundings. They also shape their own surroundings according to will. Driftglass tries to lay the power lines about humanity on an ocean floor habitat with a better precision at hand . Such a message depicts that there is no failure or rather, the human kind often tends to possess a greater ability for adapting towards their own environment and surroundings (Delany, p. 109).
This theory was shown in chapter 10, “It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.” (Wells 103). In The Time Machine, it is shown that evolution is a must if you want to survive and also explains the dangers of technology. Survival is a must in this utopian world. The author uses a metaphor in this quote by comparing the nature with animals. This quote also talks about the great chain of being since in this quote the author talks about the humans, animals and nature. Saying that people may make new technology that changes the environment – but then they evolve in reaction to that changed environment. So humans might be special, but not that special. Also that correspondence will always come and affect them when humans try to evolve to the stronger beings because even though the Morlocks evolved into the strong “animal” like creatures, them not be able to live in harmony with Eloi lead them to the destruction of the world because of the correspondence in the world. Also he states, “We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.” (Wells 78). This shows that there’s a lot of pain to evolve into the strong race of humans. The social class difference was too high for Elois to evolve and survive against Morlocks because of the laziness they have got from the use of technology on a daily basis. To sum up, the author shows that there will be correspondence in the world if the people of it are going to
Hutcheon, P.D. Leaving the Cave: Evolutionary Naturalism in Social Scientific Thought. Ithaca: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1996.
In the book “The Time Machine” written by H.G Wells, the author examined a social influence called Social Darwinism, a theory that explains how a different environment influences specie’s survival and evaluation,
Morgan thought these stages were pervasive throughout humanity and all society’s went through the same stages in the same order. This is what is meant within the term unilineal evolution. By this he meant that all societies travel through these stages, though at different rates. Morgan theorized all societies could be discussed in this way and that all societies were operating at different rates of evolutionary complexity. This idea of unilinearity is another aspect refuted soon after by Franz Boas. Important however, was the link Morgan identified between social progress and technological progress. Despite the reality that these ideas are generally obsolete in today’s world, it is realizations such a this link between social and technological progress that mark Morgan’s importance (Hersey 1993,
“We have learned things which are not in the scripts.”(Page 36) Education is a very vital part of having a healthy and well working society. A higher knowledge will provide more complex jobs which helps produce a better society. The law of no man should be alone would be forgotten due to the fact that discovering new things and learning is sometimes best when it is on your own. The ability to be allowed to research unknown things and further your education through discovering new things will increase the knowledge of unknown things. Also having the medical knowledge will expand the life span of the people in the society. Having the intelligence to keep people healthy will help them live longer and better the