Hello,
reading Nicholas Carr's The Shallows, I stumbled upon the following quote from H. G. Wells:
Thank you.
reading Nicholas Carr's The Shallows, I stumbled upon the following quote from H. G. Wells:
What does he mean by "reversion and reversal" and what is the difference between the two? Does reversion here mean a step back and reversal a change of direction? Or is it some kind of an idiom?“His [=mankind's] social life, his habits, have changed completely, have even undergone reversion and reversal, while his heredity seems to have changed very little if at all, since the late Stone Age.”
Thank you.