I am making headway with the archæology, but “The minds of men are constructed on the same pattern of... animals. To procure food, to obtain a mate, and to rear offspring - such is the real business of life with us as it is with them. If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from [such] a... form; ... [...] ... As the beautiful yet imperfect human body has slowly been developed from the base... creatures of the water and the earth, so the beautiful yet imperfect human mind has been slowly developed from the instincts of ... animals. ... The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to ... curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of ... imitativeness. Loyalty and piety, the reverential virtues, are ... from filial love; benevolence and magnanimity, the generous virtues, from parental love. The sense of decorum proceeds from ... cleanliness, and from the instinct of sex... The delicate and ardent love... which can sanctify and soften a man’s whole life; the affection which is so noble and so pure and so free from all ... stain is yet derived from the desire which impels a male... to seek a mate...”
Reade, W. (1948 [1872]) The Martyrdom of Man, C.A. Watts & co., London, pp.314-315.Max.
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