1 result for (book:deavf2 AND session:909 AND stemmed:reason)
3/32 (9%)
genetic
deformities
doodle
gifted
liabilities
[... 5 paragraphs ...]
(Long pause.) Your species as a species includes the idiot and the genius, the stupid and the wise, the athletic, the deformed, the beautiful and the ugly, and all variations in between. There are genetic cultures operating, then, of literally infinite variety (intently), and they each have their place and their reason, and they each fit into the overall picture—not only of man’s reality but of the planet’s reality, including all of nature.
[... 4 paragraphs ...]
(9:52.) There are mental conditions also: the so-called retarded people who do not use their reasoning minds as others do. There are also, again, highly gifted people, physically or mentally, people who seem to be at times as far from the ordinary person on the gifted scale as an idiot might be [on] the other. So as we progress, I hope to show where all of these situations fit in with the development of the individual and the species.
[... 8 paragraphs ...]
The entire conversation was an attempt to make the event seem reasonable, an attempt to color in the picture.
[... 11 paragraphs ...]
