This is why Lewis can say “no animal has moral virtue”25 – that is to say, no nonhuman animal has moral virtue, because only that which is properly human partakes of moral sapience (i.e., wisdom, reason), which is why man is rightly categorised as “homo sapiens.” But man can freely surrender these uniquely human traits and step back down into the category of mere hominid. Thus he becomes a “trousered ape.”‡‡
