Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.

All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of all men, present, past and future, are one communion.

From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.

Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.

We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to and identifiable with a progress towards thought that the movement of our souls expresses and measures the very stages of progress of evolution itself. Man discovers that he is nothing else than evolution become conscious of itself.