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Notes to Introduction, pp. 4-5.the sequence of events as ascertained by us.’ The rational meaningof teleology which is empirically explicated by Darwin’s naturalscientific conceptions is set forth in this passage, as well as passim inhis Origin of Species.Marx understood Hegel’s anthropology as a process of humanself-creation. Cf. Marx, Ökonomisch-Philosophische Manuskripte (1844)(see note 4); this is an anti-teleological position. See below ref. note 4and note 156.2 There is no reference to supernatural design or teleology by theDarwinians, whether Darwin himself, T. H. Huxley or Lubbock.This notion was developed later by C. Lloyd Morgan and others whoassociated themselves with Darwinism and with the doctrine ofemergent evolution.3 J. B. Bury, The Idea of Progress, 1932. In this distinction, Bury wasfollowed by K. Löwith, Meaning in History, 1949 and M. Ginsberg,The Idea of Progress, 1953.4 Differenz der demokritischen und epikureischen Naturphilosophie(Doctoral dissertation), 1841. Das philosophische Manifest derhistorischen Rechtsschule, Rheinische Zeitung, no. 221, 1842. ZurKritik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie, 1843, to which the introductionalone was published in: Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher, 1844.Ökonomisch-Philosophische Manuskripte, 1844. Die Heilige Familie,1845 (with Friedrich Engels). Thesen über Feuerbach, 1845. Diedeutsche Ideologie, 1845-1846 (with Engels). Karl Marx, FriedrichEngels, Historisch-Kritische Gesamtausgabe (MEGA), v. I, 1; v I, 3;v. I, 5, 1927-1932. Marx Engels, Werke, (MEW) 39 v. plus 2 suppl.1959-1969. Cited hereafter by volume and page.5 Zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie, 1859. (Critique of Political Economy,N. Stone, tr., 1913).6 D. [David Borisovich] Ryazanov, Novye Dannye o literaturnomnasledstve K. Marksa i F. Engel’sa. Vestnik Sotsialisticheskoy Akademii,no. 6, 1923, pp. 351-376, has raised the question of the light that theseethnological manuscript materials shed on the biography and characterof Karl Marx. This question will not be discussed in these pages,save as it bears upon the evaluation of the ethnological materialsthemselves, for which see below, note 83. On continuity-discontinuityof Marx’s thought, cf. Auguste Cornu, La feunesse de Karl Marx, 1934;id., The Origins of Marxist Thought, 1957. Georg Lukäcs, Der fungeHegel, 1948. Jean Hyppolite, Etudes sur Marx et Hegel, 1955. KarlKorsch, Karl Marx, 1938.The turning point, according to Cornu, was the composition ofthe Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844; but the eruditionof Cornu is here caught in a trap of its own devising, that of thequest for origins, turning points, as a game of the intellectual historyof a person. An even more extreme view of the rupture between theyoung and the mature Marx has been advocated by Louis Althusser355