Friday, July 16, 2010

On Board

Set sail a few days back on the good ship Beagle with one Charles Darwin as guide and companion. I keep thinking of the Thomas Hardy line about a man who used to notice such things, except that Darwin notices everything.

A curiously modern sensibility also in so many respects. The frequent condemnations of slavery, for example. Yet he casually hunts the creatures he so obviously respects and loves. Aren't we an odd species?

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