Evolution The violent spirit to forge a civilization vol 1

─By reason and in peace, and not by the abuse of violence

Addresses and announcement 1857 - 1858. By Owen Robert

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“What! then,” you will naturally ask, “is now our “duty?”

It is to assist with all your heart, mind, soul, and means, to

change the false, cruel, and wicked system of society, now

existing over the earth, for the true, merciful, and good system,

for the government of the human race. And to effect it by reason

and in peace, and not by abuse and violence.

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Violence" is clearly not a specific phenomenon of modernity. It is born as

evolution conquers the environment. Homo sapiens" is identified as the first

carbon animal with the biological trait of being "rational"[ 48 ]. And

although intelligence in Nature is expressed in multiple forms, for the

behavior of living beings, it is precisely the human being's capacity to carry

out highly complex conceptual and symbolic operations, which makes him a

piece of, "a system that shows intelligent behavior, which requires energy

to develop in an environment of mutual collaboration". But for this to

happen, it needs interaction with microscopic organisms, down to the largest

animal specimen, including plants and the planet Earth itself. So:

─intelligence is inherent to life and is not an exclusively human quality─.

Since the use of linguistic systems, abstract reasoning and the capacities of