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Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.
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Consequently Contact Each Encroachment Guard Intelligent Need Other
All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.
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Always Each Individual Live Sanctify
Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.
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Continue Country Doubt Draw Everyone First Force Foremost Man Motive Own Remain
Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.
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Appearance Essential Influence Outward Purity Subject Virtue
The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.
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Confine Earth Enjoy Himself Love Order Pagan Withing
In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.
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Itself Residue Tangible Universe Vast Way Whole
From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
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Disconcert Man Met Most Mysterious Object Point Positivist Purely Science View
It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a . We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.
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Centre Creator Curious Homogeneous Include Man Object Representation Science Succeed Thing Universe
For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.
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Administering Christian God Great Landowner Look Ninety Outside Percent This View
Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.
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Await Ceratin Christ Ever Life Me More Must Press Term Thought Through Universe
Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.
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Christ Christian Divine Go Immense Like Make Note TruluY Vibrate Whole World
The paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.
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Biologically Conciallation Element Necessary Paradoxicate Unity Utopian Whole
Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
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Affinity Draw Element Link Love Together World
I greatly enjoyed the Hawaiian Islands. They are a real little paradise in spite of the influx of Americans who have made it one of their most pleasant ‘centers of resort’.
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Country Enjoy Greatly Influ Island Little Made One Paradise Real Spite
There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.
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Concentrate Corruption Little Loss Purest Subsequent
Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.
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Centre Create Dissociate Gradual Humanity Most People Person Primitae State Survive Work

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