There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
Man as a pure animal does not exist.
To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.
If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself.
In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
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