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Demonology and devil-lore (1879)

Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 · New York : H. Holt and Company · leaf 434

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lous, but the donkey on two feet;not the bear of zoological gardens that is offensive morally,but the rough, who cannot always be caged; it is the two-legged calf, the snake pretending to be a man, the ape inevening dress, who ever made the problem of evil at allformidable. It was insoluble until… … 420 MAN-SHAPED ANIMALS. gods made man as a bridge across it. Science and Reasonconfirm these ancient instincts of our race. Man is thatbridge stretching between the animal and the ideal habitatby which, if the development be normal, all the passionspass upward into educated powers. Any pause or…

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