The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred which has followed the inception of consciousness into the human species.

No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.

Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.

The vestiges of the bicameral mind do not exist in any empty psychological space.

Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.

We know to much to command ourselves very far.

Alfred Russel Wallace, the codiscoverer of the theory of natural selection. Following their twin announcements of the theory in 1858, both Darwin and Wallace struggled like Laocoöns with the serpentine problem of human evolution and its encoiling difficulty of consciousness. But where Darwin clouded the problem with his own naivete, seeing only continuity in evolution, Wallace could not do so.