Darwin and Heraclitus
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“Homer should be turned out of the canon and whipped. He was wrong in saying : ‘Would that strife might perish from among gods and men!’ He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe, for, if his prayer were heard, all things would pass away.’ ”
~ Heraclitus
“We must know that war is what is common to all beings, . . . everything is born from and made necessary through discord.” ~ Heraclitus
We come pathetically too late to note
The brutal truth, it seems. Charles Darwin said
The same millennia later. His vote
We heard. What was going on in the head
Of mankind all that time? We listened to
The superstitions of the wise, we, chained
Against religion’s darkest wall, no clue
About the glaring facts. Nature explained
That war, war, war is universal in
The realm of life and we refused to see
It. We instead decided to say sin
Was crucial, Eve’s and Adam’s sin the key.
..If we had looked around, we could have seen
….That all were making all their chomped cuisine.
