Spencer Heath Archive

Item 594

Penned quotation from Dr. Caryl P. Haskins, Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Atlantic Monthly, page 117, February, 1946

For the society of man, though it represents but one microscopic example in the grand sweep of all earthly social evolution, is nevertheless a highly atypical one. Its correct placement in the scale of which it is a part will require . . the most comprehensive knowledge of the broader evolutionary picture.