Every step you take you proclaim yourself the father of him who rubbed his face with a brass candlestick

Not forever, however, was the animal world to suffer this indignity at the hands of man. Thinkers themselves prepared the way for a rapprochement between the two. More particularly the English philosophers from [John] Locke onward, together with their French followers, […] may be said by a sort of leveling-down process to have favored the idea of a mental kinship between man and brute.

A tall, hawkfaced man ran up to him from behind, catching him by the shoulders, playfully shaking him.

Where pity, to the mind conveyed In pleasure, is the darkest shade That Time, unwrinkled grandsire, flings From his smoothly gliding wings.