Tectonic Nature Of Human Conditions

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There are very few aspects of the human condition that have had a profound impact on human existence. Perhaps above all is the intrinsic nature of discovering that is in every human. It is because of the discoveries made, both consciously and unconsciously, that has created the complexity of human nature.

Many discoveries are evoked by curiosity, such as that in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1887 novel "A Study in Scarlet" or through necessity, as can be seen in Siegfried Sassoon's 1918 poem "Suicide in the Trenches". Whist the discoveries made in both texts are circumstantially different, they clearly demonstrate the fundamental aspect of human nature that is

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