I maintained that, contrary to the commonly expressed or tacitly accepted
view, the era of active evolution did not end with the appearance of the human zoological type: for by virtue of his acquirement of the gift of individual reflection Man displays the
extraordinary quality of being able to totalize himself collectively upon himself, thus
extending on a planetary scale the fundamental vital process which causes matter, under Certain conditions, to organize itself in elements which are ever more complex physically, and psychologically ever more centrated.