This is Monica Perez, and we are on, I don't even know, this is our 10th maker of the modern mind out of 12.

So we're actually whipping through this book.

I thought it would literally take a year.

I probably actually will literally take half a year. But I find it very engaging. And you know my goal here, it's Saturday story time.

And I feel like this is an hour. You can zone out, listen to me, read you this little story

while you make your pickles or fold your laundry. And also, it's super fun for those of us

who are here live, which is Tuesdays at 2 o'clock Pacific, 5 o'clock Eastern. All very fun.

I enjoy this. It keeps my mind off my troubles and makes me not think about current events. We're going to talk about

that this week on cognitive dissidents. But for now, let's go to Darwin, who I do not personally

care for. I am not a fan. But let's see, let's see how Thomas P. Neal, Ph.D. portrays Darwin.

This is the title of this chapter is,

struggle for survival.

The direct influence of the Benthamites was cut short by changes in the temper and the tempo of Western life.

Changes which they ignored.

Life quickened in the 19th century as steam and electricity were applied to industry,

and within a few years the face of civilization was changed, as it had not been changed before within centuries.

Anyone with even a short memory could see how change was the only constant factor in life,

how man was progressing year by year, growing wealthier, healthier, and more powerful as he conquered nature for the first time since he

emerged from the cave. Benthamites did not take this newly intensified element of change into

consideration. Their thought was posited of a static world where institutions and customs

would remain as unchanged as man himself.

Because there was no room in their theories for radical alterations in society, or

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