665
As a measure of so many variables scattered in the teeming boundaries of that
which functions and those which have ceased to do so, Being, Consciousness, and
their mutual alliance enunciate without surcease the exquisite lessons and rationales
that discount fatalistic propositions in favor of some conscious opportunistic
embrace. That is the universal sense that natural selection has clearly upheld as a
meaningful cohort of survival the intelligence of flowers, the perceptual faculties of
an eagle, and the deep range tolerance of a Weddell Seal.
9
All the variations of such fellow Beings have continued to benefit from every
benign commission, act, and impulse that consciousness clairvoyantly adopts. The
garden admits to a combining of proclivities and possibilities, and this may be as
close as we can come to recognizing some form of the universal bond that is the
source of our thoughts and intuitions. A rite of passage that would, if we were only
to let it be, provide the itinerary for a very different pilgrim’s progress, one that
sought solely in consciousness the best for biodiversity.
10,11
9 See Hours Of Gladness, by M. Maeterlinck, Translated by A. Teixeira DeMattos, Illustrated by
E. J. Detmold, George Allen & Co. Ltd., London, 1912.
10 See The Book of Hours: With a Historical Survey and Commentary, by John Harthan, Crowell
Publishers, New York, 1977. See also, Le trésor des Heures – Pages choisies des livres d’Heures
des XIV et XV siècles, by Fanny Faÿ-Sallois, Desclée De Brouwer, Paris, 2002. See also, Time
Sanctified – The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life, by Roger S. Wieck, With Essays By
Lawrence R. Poos, Virginia Reinburg and John Plummer, George Braziller, Inc., New York, In
Association With The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, New York, 1988.
11 See “Physiological control of divine behavior in the Weddell seal Leptonychotes weddelli: a
model based on cardiorespiratory control theory,” by Richard Stephenson, Journal of Experimental
Biology 2005 208:L 1971–1991; doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.01583, https://jeb.biologists.org/
content/208/10/1971, Accessed July 20, 2020.
72.3 A Biological Pilgrim’s Progress
As a measure of so many variables scattered in the teeming boundaries of that
which functions and those which have ceased to do so, Being, Consciousness, and
their mutual alliance enunciate without surcease the exquisite lessons and rationales
that discount fatalistic propositions in favor of some conscious opportunistic
embrace. That is the universal sense that natural selection has clearly upheld as a
meaningful cohort of survival the intelligence of flowers, the perceptual faculties of
an eagle, and the deep range tolerance of a Weddell Seal.
9
All the variations of such fellow Beings have continued to benefit from every
benign commission, act, and impulse that consciousness clairvoyantly adopts. The
garden admits to a combining of proclivities and possibilities, and this may be as
close as we can come to recognizing some form of the universal bond that is the
source of our thoughts and intuitions. A rite of passage that would, if we were only
to let it be, provide the itinerary for a very different pilgrim’s progress, one that
sought solely in consciousness the best for biodiversity.
10,11
9 See Hours Of Gladness, by M. Maeterlinck, Translated by A. Teixeira DeMattos, Illustrated by
E. J. Detmold, George Allen & Co. Ltd., London, 1912.
10 See The Book of Hours: With a Historical Survey and Commentary, by John Harthan, Crowell
Publishers, New York, 1977. See also, Le trésor des Heures – Pages choisies des livres d’Heures
des XIV et XV siècles, by Fanny Faÿ-Sallois, Desclée De Brouwer, Paris, 2002. See also, Time
Sanctified – The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life, by Roger S. Wieck, With Essays By
Lawrence R. Poos, Virginia Reinburg and John Plummer, George Braziller, Inc., New York, In
Association With The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, New York, 1988.
11 See “Physiological control of divine behavior in the Weddell seal Leptonychotes weddelli: a
model based on cardiorespiratory control theory,” by Richard Stephenson, Journal of Experimental
Biology 2005 208:L 1971–1991; doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.01583, https://jeb.biologists.org/
content/208/10/1971, Accessed July 20, 2020.
72.3 A Biological Pilgrim’s Progress