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fittest
disfavor
physique
supremacy
defects
(The day was warm — 50 degrees.
(Jane did very well reading aloud the first two notes I’d written for Session 907 of Dreams, as well as yesterday’s session. In fact, her reading of the session was as fast, or faster, than any I’ve heard her do. Peggy Gallagher visited briefly in the middle of Jane’s effort.)
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The whole idea was developed in the most mechanistic of terms, stressing competition among all aspects of life, pitting one life form against another, and using physical strength and dexterity, swiftness and efficiency, as the prime conditions for the survival of any individual or species.
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The same beliefs often spread to economic areas in which (long pause) people who met pleasure in God’s eyes were therefore gifted with wealth and prosperity, as well as good health. Therefore God was seen to be on the side of those who competed most strenuously, so that to be poor or sick was almost seen as a sign of God’s disfavor. All such concepts appear in one form or another at most official levels of thought and education. The whole idea of the esthetics of nature is forgotten — a subject that we will touch upon further as we continue our discussion.
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