And that is not all. Twenty years ago he would have found in that kind of literature signs of the struggle with authority and of an outlook centuries old, and from that struggle would have deduced that something else had existed; but as it is, he stumbles on a kind of literature that does not even deign to dispute the old point of view, saying straight off, "There is nothing but evolution, selection, the struggle for existence, and nothing more"!
Veinte años atrás habría encontrado en esa literatura los signos de la lucha con la autoridad, con las creencias seculares, y en esta lucha habría comprendido que antes había existido algo más. Pero ahora da con una literatura que no hace dignas de discusión tales ideas, sino que dice sencillamente: «No hay nada.