“All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.” HumansJoyFreedomAnimalMinesArtificialConventionalHumans And AnimalsFree Life Book:Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal
“[E]volutionists sometimes take as haughty an attitude toward the next level up the conventional ladder of disciplines: the human sciences. They decry the supposed atheoretical particularism of their anthropological colleagues and argue that all would be well if only the students of humanity regarded their subject as yet another animal and therefore yielded explanatory control to evolutionary biologists.” IfsHumansWellsSometimesWould BeHumanityNextAnimalLevelsAttitudeSubjectsStudentsDisciplineArguingConventionalColleaguesLaddersNext LevelBiologistHaughty Book:An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas Source: An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas