[lbo-talk] Bonobo you don't

[Ted Winslow]

Carrol Cox wrote:

> This capacity, I would guess, would be more essential than speech even
> for developing a "culture." And it is clear that culture long preceded
> not only the invention of speech but the appearance of biologically
> modern humans. So whether or not chimpanzees have culture, culture
> certainly was possessed by a number of pre-human species.

A student of mine just sent me this :

"Yet not so strictly hath our Lord imposed
Labour as to debar us when we need
Refreshment, whether food or talk between,
Food of the mind, or this sweet intercourse
Of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow,
To brute denied, and are of love the food-
Love, not the lowest end of human life.
For not to irksome toil but to delight
He made us, and delight to reason joined."

Ted