Humanity
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The idea that man is a being set apart, distinct from all the rest of nature, is born of man's emotions, of his loves and hates, of his hopes and fears, and of the primitive conceptions of undeveloped minds.


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...I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations [of man and animal].

[Chapter 2.]


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It may also be the case that some people have become so accustomed to a carbon-monoxide polluted atmosphere as to sicken at the breath of fresh country air. And it is far from being unlikely that the postwar period has produced groups of people so habituated to uninterrupted radio noise -- their own or anybody's radio -- that it would unnerve them to remain long in quiet surroundings.


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In the last decade alone there has been something of a holocaust of the scarcest of our earthly resources, natural beauty. In this instance the conflict of interest is between, on the one hand, the tourists, tourist agencies, traffic industries and ancillary services, to say nothing of governments anxious to augment their reserves of foreign currencies, and all those who care about preserving natural beauty on the other.


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In the ruthless transformation of our planet home -- the only planet, incidentally, we can comfortably live on -- we are concurrently destroying much that man's nature doted on in the past: a sense of intimately belonging, of being a part of a community in which each man had his place; a sense of being close to nature, of being close to the soil and to the beasts of the field that served him; a sense of being a part of the eternal and unhurried rhythm of life.


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...is it politically reprehensible, while we are all groaning, or at any rate ought to be groaning, under the shackles of the capitalist system, to point out that life is frequently more worth living because of a blackbird's song, a yellow elm tree in October, or some other natural phenomenon which does not cost money and does not have what the editors of left-wing newspapers call a class angle?


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...by retaining one's childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies and — to return to my first instance — toads, one makes a peaceful and decent future a little more probable, and that by preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship.


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...it is wholly impossible, in the face of modern knowledge and evolutional science, to maintain the old "anthropocentric" idea which regarded man as the sum and center of the universe, a monarch for whose special benefit all else was created...


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The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves. This is how they are able to continue and endure.


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...nature, be it observed, may be termed the mother of all. From her bosom we derive the sustenance of life, the panacea for woes and wrongs, and the solace for misery and despair that too frequently crush the hopes of man and rob humanity of its highest glory and its noblest service.


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     Humanity -- Added : April 11, 2020

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