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When we attempt to discern the origins of man we often feel ourselves seized by a species of double vision. It is an instance of that schizophrenia which attends all our attempts to describe man totally within the framework of natural science. In some respects it resembles the oscillatory perception we have of Wittgenstein’s goose-rabbit or Hill’s girl-drone. We shall see as we go on that this systematic duality forms one of the central strands of this book’s argument.
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Smith, C.U.M. (1976). Beginnings. In: The Problem of Life. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02461-2_2
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