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Julian Huxley on Human Potential

Julian Huxley

Julian Huxley

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The human species can, if it wishes, transcend itself⁠—not just sporadically, an individual here in one way, an individual there in another way, but in its entirety, as humanity. We need a name for this new belief. Perhaps transhumanism will serve: man remaining man, but transcending himself, by realizing new possibilities of and for his human nature.

“Transhumanism,” in New Bottles for New Wine, Chatto & Windus, 1957

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