Status Updates From Why Look at Animals?

opportunities can be irretrievably lost and then their loss is like a death.

darwin’s thinking was a creative response to the terrifying immensity of what had just been opened up. & the sadness of darwinism - for no other scientific revolution, when it was made, broadcast so little hope - derived,
I think, from the desolation of the distances involved

language allows men to reckon with each other as with themselves.
in the confirmation made possible by language, human ignorance and fear may also be confirmed. whereas in animals fear is a response to signal, in men it is endemic.