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All Living Beings Have Received Their Weapons Through The Same Process Of Evolution That Moulded Their Impulses And Inhibitions; For The Structural Plan Of The Body And The System Of Behaviour Of A Species Are Parts Of The Same Whole.... Wordsworth Is Right: There Is Only One Being In Possession Of Weapons Which Do Not Grow On His Body And Of Whose Working Plan, Therefore, The Instincts Of His Species Know Nothing And In The Usage Of Which He Has No Correspondingly Adequate Inhibition.

In Nature We Find Not Only That Which Is Expedient, But Also Everything Which Is Not So Inexpedient As To Endanger The Existence Of The Species.

Visualize Yourself Confronted With The Task Of Killing, One After The Other, A Cabbage, A Fly, A Fish, A Lizard, A Guinea Pig, A Cat, A Dog, A Monkey And A Baby Chimpanzee. In The Unlikely Case That You Should Experience No Greater Inhibitions In Killing The Chimpanzee Than In Destroying The Cabbage Or The Fly, My Advice To You Is To Commit Suicide At Your Earliest Possible Convenience, Because You Are A Weird Monstrosity And A Public Danger.

If You Confine Yourself To This Skinnerian Technique, You Study Nothing But The Learning Apparatus And You Leave Out Everything That Is Different In Octopi, Crustaceans, Insects And Vertebrates. In Other Words, You Leave Out Everything That Makes A Pigeon A Pigeon, A Rat A Rat, A Man A Man, And, Above All, A Healthy Man Healthy And A Sick Man Sick.

Barking Dogs May Occasionally Bite, But Laughing Men Hardly Ever Shoot!