His mother did not call him Lungri [the Lame One] for nothing, ” said Mother Wolf quietly. “He has been lame in one foot from his birth. — (Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book , 1894)
The birth of an empire.
to give birth to a work of literature, to a work of art, to an idea
I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!
Biological evolution created a human mind that enabled cultural evolution, which now outpaces and outclasses the force that birthed it.
