As someone who approaches humanism from a scientific point of view, I'd like to start with a passage from one of my favorite books, Jacob Bronowski's, The Ascent of Man. For a long time I had accepted evolution in the Darwinian sense, that is to say as strictly biological. But two phrases in the passage below helped lead me to a greater understanding of the scope of evolution: "the evolution of nature" and "matter itself evolves."
The first step in the evolution of the elements takes place in young stars, such as the sun. It is the step from hydrogen to helium, and it needs the great heat of the interior; what we see on the surface of the sun are only storms produced by that action... What happens in effect is that from time to time a pair of nuclei of heavy hydrogen collides and fuses to make a nucleus of helium." (Jacob, 1997)
The second thing Antonia represents for Jim is a close tie to the land. Jim loves the land, but is able to give it up for the successes of the city, while Antonia is happiest when closest to it.
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