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Stapledon, Olaf - Starmaker - Progress
Identifier
000237
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Olaf Stapledon knew there had to be a way of testing function via form, but he seemed to think that the species almost tested itself. It would 'succumb'. I will leave it up to you to decide what succumb means
A description of the experience
Olaf Stapledon – Star Maker
As we searched up and down time and space, discovering more and more of the rare grains called planets, we watched race after race struggle to a certain degree of lucid consciousness, only to succumb to some external accident or, more often, to some flaw in its own nature.