“By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution is a natural process, history a human one.... Insofar as we treat man as a part of nature--for instance in a biological survey of evolution--we are precisely not treating him as a historical being. As a historically developing being, he is set over against nature, both as a knower and as a doer.”
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Owen Barfield
Owen Barfield was a British philosopher, poet, and literary critic, recognized for his contributions to the philosophy of language and the theory of myth. A prominent member of the Inklings, a group of writers and scholars associated with Oxford University, Barfield's ideas often centered on the nature of language, imagination, and the significance of myth in human culture. more
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