02-08-2012, 10:32 PM
This brings to mind a passage from "Fieirce Invalids Home From Hot Climates"
"What is it that separates human beings from the so called lower animals? Well as I see it, it's exactly one half dozen significant things: Humor, Imagination, Eroticism - as opposed to the mindless, instinctive mating of glow-worms or raccoons - Spirituality, Rebelliousness, and Aesthetics, an appreciation of beauty for its own sake."
I tend to agree. Whether this is all just a by product of abstract thought though, I don't know.
"What is it that separates human beings from the so called lower animals? Well as I see it, it's exactly one half dozen significant things: Humor, Imagination, Eroticism - as opposed to the mindless, instinctive mating of glow-worms or raccoons - Spirituality, Rebelliousness, and Aesthetics, an appreciation of beauty for its own sake."
I tend to agree. Whether this is all just a by product of abstract thought though, I don't know.