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If we can simply distinguish between the different successive stages of evolution, it is possible to see primeval events within the earthly events of the present. -- Rudolf Steiner
The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relation of these successive forms, as stages of evolution of the same type, is established in various cases. -- Thomas Huxley
Man's body had a different shape in the past from that of the present, and from that which it will have in the future. During involution it was approximately spherical, as it still is during ante-natal life, because the intra-uterine development is a recapitulation of past stages of evolution. -- Max Heindel
I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind. -- Herbert Read
Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution. -- Marvin Minsky
At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future. -- Lewis Thomas
There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues. -- Arthur Keith
Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity. -- Annie Besant
At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God. -- Alfred Noyes
A human body is associated with six stages of transformation, birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction. -- Sathya Sai Baba

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