For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved, condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Hopkins suggests human uniqueness arises from a higher, distinct creative force rather than common natural processes.
- In plain terms
- Human distinctiveness implies a special creative source beyond ordinary nature.
- What can you take from it?
- Consider the unique depth of human nature.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What makes humans distinct from animals?
- Is there purpose in evolution?
Another view
This perspective conflicts with standard scientific evolutionary models.
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