The Neuro-physiological Organization Which We Call Instinct

The Human Soul Is Very Much Older Than The Human Mind.

Visualize Yourself Confronted With The Task Of Killing, One After The Other, A Cabbage, A Fly, A Fish, A Lizard, A Guinea Pig, A Cat, A Dog, A Monkey And A Baby Chimpanzee. In The Unlikely Case That You Should Experience No Greater Inhibitions In Killing The Chimpanzee Than In Destroying The Cabbage Or The Fly, My Advice To You Is To Commit Suicide At Your Earliest Possible Convenience, Because You Are A Weird Monstrosity And A Public Danger.

All Too Willingly Man Sees Himself As The Centre Of The Universe, As Something Not Belonging To The Rest Of Nature But Standing Apart As A Different And Higher Being. Many People Cling To This Error And Remain Deaf To The Wisest Command Ever Given By A Sage, The Famous "know Thyself" Inscribed In The Temple Of Delphi.

Nothing Can Better Express The Feelings Of The Scientist Towards The Great Unity Of The Laws Of Nature Than In Immanuel Kant's Words: "two Things Fill The Mind With Ever New And Increasing Awe: The Stars Above Me And The Moral Law Within Me."... Would He, Who Did Not Yet Know Of The Evolution Of The World Of Organisms, Be Shocked That We Consider The Moral Law Within Us Not As Something Given, A Priori, But As Something Which Has Arisen By Natural Evolution, Just Like The Laws Of The Heavens?

Few Animals Display Their Mood Via Facial Expressions As Distinctly As Cats.