Love, hope, fear, faith--these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

One human could simply withhold its feelings and intentions from another human by failing to audibilize or it could audibilize things that were not real. The other human would be aware only of what it heard and would change its behavior in response to a nonexistent stimulus. They called it 'lying.

But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.

Ademoğlu hayvanların geri kalanından özde nasıl ayrılıyordu? Kendi kendine havalanabilen (Tanrı bilir daha başka neler yapabilen) bir ırk sadece mühendislikle etkilenebilir miydi? Eğer öyleyse Assuan Barajı mı yoksa binlerce kilometrelik mercan kayalıkları mı birincilik ödülünü kazanırdı? İnsan'ın bilinci mi? Saf, yerel kibir; dev sekoya ağaçlarının ya da ispermeçet balinalarının insanları fazlasıyla aşan birer filozof ya da şair olmadıklarına hiçbir kanıt yoktu.