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“America came to beat its breast over the murder of Indians. But most people never knew, and if you cared, what had happened to wolves. Insofar as both were exterminated for similar reasons...it is odd that no one ever asked why.”

The breadth and depth of information here is quite remarkable, and Lopez is a skilled writer, engaging my imagination throughout.

So far it is very illuminating about wolves. Did you know that “in extreme cold the wolf can reduce the flow of blood near its skin and conserve even more heat”? They can even regulate the temperature of their footpads separately from the rest of their body, a marvelous design!

“The true Christian pilgrimage is not to Rome, or Compostela, but to the prophets, the Psalms, and the Gospels.”

“I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God.”

“...the [Protestant] movement...was borne [to the diet of Augsburg] this time not by the monk of Wittenberg, or even by the ministers and theologians, but by the lay princes who stood to lose their dignities and their lives.”