Similarly, even though it is nearly a century and a half since Darwin’s remarkable genius enabled him to grasp the process of evolution and its basic mechanisms, we are still working out many of the implications of that jolting dislocation of humans from a wholly unique, hallowed position vis-�-vis other forms of life.
From page 23, sentence number 5 of Can Love Last?, by Stephen A. Mitchell.
This is part of a meme, which I heard about on a couple of sites today. Here’s what the meme suggests you do:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.