\u201cMan is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to
\ndispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the
\nUnreasoning Animal\u2026 In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things
\nwhich other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my
\nexperiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends.
\n I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a
\n rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a
\nsquirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace;
\n even affectionately.<\/p>\n
Next, in another cage I confined an Irish
\nCatholic from Tipperary, and as soon as he seemed tame I added a Scotch
\nPresbyterian from Aberdeen. Next a Turk from Constantinople; a Greek
\nChristian from Crete; an Armenian; a Methodist from the wilds of
\nArkansas; a Buddhist from China; a Brahman from Benares. Finally, a
\nSalvation Army Colonel from Wapping. Then I stayed away for two whole
\ndays. When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was
\nall right, but in the other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends
\nof turbans and fezzes and plaids and bones and flesh\u2013not a specimen
\nleft alive. These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological
\ndetail and carried the matter to a Higher Court.\u201d
\n \u00a0
\u00a0\u2015 Mark Twain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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