“Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.”
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was born this day, May1st, in1881 at the family estate in Sarcenat, France, to a devout and land holding family. His parents were Emmanuel and Berthe-Adele Teilhard de Chardin. His mother was the great grandniece of Voltaire.
Teilhard was the fourth of the couple’s eleven children.