Life Is Like A Very Short Visit

This Unusual And Highly Successful Species Spends A Great Deal Of Time Examining His Higher Motives And An Equal Amount Of Time Ignoring His Fundamental Ones.

It Must Be Stressed That There Is Nothing Insulting About Looking At People As Animals. We Are Animals, After All. Homo Sapiens Is A Species Of Primate, A Biological Phenomenon Dominated By Biological Rules, Like Any Other Species. Human Nature Is No More Than One Particular Kind Of Animal Nature. Agreed, The Human Species Is An Extraordinary Animal; But All Other Species Are Also Extraordinary Animals, Each In Their Own Way, And The Scientific Man-watcher Can Bring Many Fresh Insights To The Study Of Human Affairs If He Can Retain This Basic Attitude Of Evolutionary Humility.

...in Little More Than A Single Century From 1820 To 19450, No Less Than Fifty-nine Million Human Animals Were Killed In Inter-group Clashes Of One Sort Or Another.... We Describe These Killings As Men Behaving "like Animals," But If We Could Find A Wild Animal That Showed Signs Of Acting This Way, It Would Be More Precise To Describe It As Behaving Like Men.

The City Is Not A Concrete Jungle, It Is A Human Zoo.

No Matter How Old We Become, We Can Still Call Them 'holy Mother' And 'father' And Put A Child-like Trust In Them.