The universal kinship / by J. Howard Moore.

  • J. Howard Moore
Date:
1906
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Credit: The universal kinship / by J. Howard Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE UNIVERSAL KINSHIP THE PHYSICAL KINSHIP I. Man an Animal. It was in the zoology class at college. We had made all the long journey from amoeba to coral, from coral to worm, from worm to mollusk, from mollusk to fish, from fish to reptile, and from reptile to mammal—and there, in the closing pages of faithful old Packard, we found it. ‘ A mammal of the order of primates,’ the book said, with that unconcern characteristic of the deliverances of science. I was almost saddened. It was the first intimation I had ever received of that trite but neglected truth that man is an animal. But the intimation was so weak, and I was at that time so unconscious, that it was not till years later that I began, through reflection, actually to realise the truth here first caught sight of. During these years I knew that man was not a mineral nor a plant—that, indeed, he belonged to the
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