Thursday, 12th January 2012 at 01:04
NONE OF THE TRAITS BY WHICH THE MOST AUTHORIZED PHILOSOPHY OR CULTURE HAS THOUGHT IT POSSIBLE TO RECOGNIZE THIS ‘PROPER OF MAN’—NONE OF THEM IS, IN ALL RIGOR, THE EXCLUSIVE RESERVE OF WHAT WE HUMANS CALL HUMAN. EITHER BECAUSE SOME ANIMALS ALSO POSSESS SUCH TRAITS, OR BECAUSE MAN DOES NOT POSSESS IT AS SURELY AS IS CLAIMED.
—JACQUES DERRIDAWG.
