"Instead of accepting the Victorian myth of a struggle for existence in a blind and meaningless universe, one must, with Professor Lawrence Henderson, replace this with a picture of a partnership in mutual aid, in which the physical structure of matter itself, and the very distribution of the elements on the earth's crust, their quantity, their solubility, their specific gravity, their distribution and chemical combination, are life furthering and life-sustaining. Even the most rigorous scientific description of the physical basis of life indicates it to be internally teleological."
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Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization (1934) citing Henderson's The Oder of Nature (1925) & The Fitness of the Environment (1927)
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