Sentences with phrase «physical power over nature»

Toynbee observed that since the dawn of civilization there has been a growing «morality gap» between humankind's physical power over nature and the level of its spirituality — a gap that has increased rapidly in the last 200 years.

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«And yet evidently something has given us power over the physical environment, power to work out the laws of nature themselves and control them for our own ends, power even to destroy Nature itself with our technology if we are foolish enature themselves and control them for our own ends, power even to destroy Nature itself with our technology if we are foolish eNature itself with our technology if we are foolish enough.