The children of light who do not take
sufficient cognizance of the expansive character of man's freedom whereby an individual's or a group's self - interest may take the form of inordinate or unreasonable claims, believe that our impulses are manageable and amenable to rational control.
It is not a
sufficient condition for classification as an evolutionary cosmology that a philosophical system take some vague
cognizance of, or prove itself compatible with the brute historical facts
of evolutionary change and transformation (which are by no means always «upward» or «progressive»).