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  • Nothing in Nature stands still; everything strives and moves forward. If we could only view the first stages of creation, how the kingdoms of nature were built one upon the other, a progression of forward-striving forces would reveal itself in all evolution.

    "'Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit' ('Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man')". Book by Johann Gottfried Herder, translated by T. Churchill. Book 5, 1803.