We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic temperature are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual bu… - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic temperature are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet. This indication is so familiar to us that we cannot but recognize the objective, experiential, reality of a transformation of the planet as a whole.

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About Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French Jesuit priest, philosopher, and a paleontologist present at the discovery of Peking Man.

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Alternative Names: P. Teilhard de Chardin
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