Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the … - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development of the mind, in one word noogenesis. When for the first time in a living creature instinct perceived itself in its own mirror, the whole world took a pace forward.

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