Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate … - Robert Ardrey

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As an example of wealth, good taste, and subtle intimidation, it took first prize.

Robert Ardrey

Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?

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Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours.

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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.

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We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.

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Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

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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?

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