“Cruel? Do you mean to the hunchback?” “I mean—Of course the man himself was quite indifferent; no doubt, it is to him just a way of getting a living, like the circus-rider’s way or the columbine’s. But the thing makes one feel unhappy. It is humiliating; it is the degradation of a human being.” “He probably is not any more degraded than he was to start with. Most of us are degraded in one way or another.” Life And LivingTruth Of LifeDegradationLife WisdomThe GadflyThe World Around UsDegradation Of HumansSarcastic Truth Author:E L Voynich