June 11, 2019

PHILOSOPHERS' STONE.PART 138

within same species,in addittion to a large number of progeny.The Origin Of Species caused bitter controversies reverberated the continent and sharply divided the scientific community and the church.When in I871 he published The Descent Of Man in he drew attention to the significant similarities between man and animals that both evolved from same progenitor,not much protests were made compared to 1859.He covered a lot of ground that we might not be able to cover here due to time and space.Before rounding up with Freud,let me briefly touch German Friedrich Nietzsche ( 1844-1900) who had a great influence on twentieth century.He too took Hegel as point of departure and the German historicism.He popularised the term" God is dead"and a member of existentialist school of thought alongside Schlegel,Schiller and Jean Paul Sartre.Others include Irishman Samuel Becket,Eugene Ionesco, Albert Camus,Simone de Beauvoir.They had great influence beginning from forties till date especially on drama.Jean Paul brought into

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