Man Appears To Be The Missing Link

Humor And Knowledge Are The Two Great Hopes Of Our Culture.

The Attitude Of The True Scientist Towards The Real Limits Of Human Understanding Was Unforgettably Impressed On Me In Early Youth By The Obviously Unpremeditated Words Of A Great Biologist; Alfred Kuhn Finished A Lecture To The Austrian Academy Of Science With Goethe 's Words, "it Is The Greatest Joy Of The Man Of Thought To Have Explored The Explorable And Then Calmly To Revere The Inexplorable." After The Last Word He Hesitated, Raised His Hand In Repudiation And Cried, Above The Applause, "no, Not Calmly, Gentlemen; Not Calmly!

I Believe-and Human Psychologists, Particularly Psychoanalysts Should Test This-that Present-day Civilized Man Suffers From Insufficient Discharge Of His Aggressive Drive. It Is More Than Probable That The Evil Effects Of The Human Aggressive Drives, Explained By Sigmund Freud As The Results Of A Special Death Wish, Simply Derive From The Fact That In Prehistoric Times Intra-specific Selection Bred Into Man A Measure Of Aggression Drive For Which In The Social Order Today He Finds No Adequate Outlet.

Barking Dogs May Occasionally Bite, But Laughing Men Hardly Ever Shoot!

All Living Beings Have Received Their Weapons Through The Same Process Of Evolution That Moulded Their Impulses And Inhibitions; For The Structural Plan Of The Body And The System Of Behaviour Of A Species Are Parts Of The Same Whole.... Wordsworth Is Right: There Is Only One Being In Possession Of Weapons Which Do Not Grow On His Body And Of Whose Working Plan, Therefore, The Instincts Of His Species Know Nothing And In The Usage Of Which He Has No Correspondingly Adequate Inhibition.