The Evolution of the Spirit : From Greece to the West, from India to the East Julio Ozan Lavoisier Vedams Books 9788124118962 “By putting survival in a preeminent position, Darwin relegates high aspirations and elevated sentiments to the periphery, barely part of the landscape while the utilitarian aspects of life are foregrounded. This vision has had wide repercussions in an age where there is an unfortunate tendency to incline towards materialist and utilitarian philosophies. These have diffused a primordial and decisive feature in man: his spiritual evolution.