The Writings of John Burroughs, volume 16

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The Writings of John Burroughs, volume 16
Burroughs, John, 1837-1921
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We cannot think of man as one; we are compelled to think of him as many; and yet in all our experience the many come from the one, or the one pair.
How thick the field of animal life in the past is strewn with extinct forms ! — as thick as the sidereal spaces are strewn with the fragments of wrecked worlds! But other worlds and suns are spun out of the wrecked worlds and suns through the process of cosmic evolution. The world-stuff is worked over and over. Extinct animal forms must have given r
...ise to other, allied forms before they perished, and these to still others, and so on down to our time.
The image of a tree is misleading from the fact that all the different branches of the animal king- dom, from the protozoa up to man, have come along with what we call the higher branches, the mam- mals ; the suckers havet kept pace with the main stalk, so that we have the image of a sheaf of branches starting from a common origin and all of equal length. Man has brought on his relations along with him.


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