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For practical purposes, humans aren’t considered animals. When Darwin proposed in 1859 that we had evolved from apes, it’s no wonder the most people initially regarded his theory as absurd and continued to insist that we had been separately created by God. Many people including a quarter of all Americans college graduates, still hold to that belief today.
But on the other hand, we obviously are animals, with the usual animal body parts, molecules, and genes. It’s even clear what particular type of animals we are. Externally, we’re so similar to chimpanzees that eighteenth century anatomists who believed in divine creation could already recognize our affinities. Just imagine taking some normal people, stripping all their cloths, taking away all their other possessions, depriving them of the power of speech, and reducing them to grunting, without changing their anatomy at all. Put them in a cage in the zoo next to the chip cages, and let the rest of could be seen for what we all really are: chimps that have little hair and walk upright. A zoologist from Outer Space would immediately classify us as just a third species of chimpanzee, along the pigmy chimp of Zaire and the common chimp of the rest of tropical Africa.
But on the other hand, we obviously are animals, with the usual animal body parts, molecules, and genes. It’s even clear what particular type of animals we are. Externally, we’re so similar to chimpanzees that eighteenth century anatomists who believed in divine creation could already recognize our affinities. Just imagine taking some normal people, stripping all their cloths, taking away all their other possessions, depriving them of the power of speech, and reducing them to grunting, without changing their anatomy at all. Put them in a cage in the zoo next to the chip cages, and let the rest of could be seen for what we all really are: chimps that have little hair and walk upright. A zoologist from Outer Space would immediately classify us as just a third species of chimpanzee, along the pigmy chimp of Zaire and the common chimp of the rest of tropical Africa.
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But on the other hand, we obviously are animals, with the usual animal body parts, molecules, and genes. It’s even clear what particular type of animals we are. Externally, we’re so similar to chimpanzees that eighteenth century anatomists who believed in divine creation could already recognize our affinities. Just imagine taking some normal people, stripping all their cloths, taking away all their other possessions, depriving them of the power of speech, and reducing them to grunting, without changing their anatomy at all. Put them in a cage in the zoo next to the chip cages, and let the rest of could be seen for what we all really are: chimps that have little hair and walk upright. A zoologist from Outer Space would immediately classify us as just a third species of chimpanzee, along the pigmy chimp of Zaire and the common chimp of the rest of tropical Africa.
The basic causes are in ourselves, for the state in the soul of man enlarged under the microscope of history. The major instincts of mankind -- acquisition, mating, fighting, action, and association -- are the ultimate sources of war. For thousands, perhaps millions, of years men were uncertain of their food supply, not knowing yet the bounty of husbanded soil, they depended upon the fortunes of the hunt. Having captured prey they tore or cut it to pieces, often on the spot, and gorged themselves to their cubic capacity with the raw flelsh and the warm gore; how could they tell when they might eat again? Greed is eating, for hoarding, for the future; wealth is originally , a hedge against starvation; war is at first a raid for food. Perhaps all vices were once virtues, indispensable in the struggle for existence; they became vices only in the degree to which social order and increasing security rendered them unnecessary for survival. Once men had to chase, to kill, to grasp, to overeat, to board; a hundred millenniums of insecurity bred into the race those acquisitive and possessive impulses which no laws or morals or ideals, but only centuries of security, can mitigate or destroy. ~ page 92
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