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April 29, 2014
Man has called himself (among other things):
the political animal; the toolmaking animal; the historical animal; the commodity-making animal; the economical animal; the foreseeing animal; the promising animal; the death-knowing animal; the art-making or aesthetic animal; the explaining animal; the cause-bearing animal; the classifying animal; the measuring animal; the counting animal; the metaphor-making animal; the talking animal; the laughing animal; the religious animal; the spiritual animal; the metaphysical animal; the wondering animal... Man, it seems, is the self-predicating animal.- - The New Atlantis
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And sad to say, regarding his own species, the deliberately neglecting and murderous animal. If God had eyes and tear ducts we'd have another flood.
Posted by: Howard Nelson at April 29, 2014 11:44 AM
I am not an animal.
Posted by: Joan of Argghh! at April 29, 2014 4:02 PM