[lbo-talk] Human instinct

Mike Ballard swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au
Tue Jun 17 17:01:08 PDT 2008


Joanna wrote:

I do understand why one would argue that there cannot be such a thing as human instinct. Yet, still, I think Blake was on to something when he wrote:

"The bird, a nest; the spider, a web; man, friendship!"

(From the Marriage of Heaven and Hell.)

Joanna

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Thanks for the quote. I used it in my Yahoo group. Alas, I'm still one of the benighted when it comes to the instinct for survival and how that plays out in the overall scheme of things, even amongst humans.

Mike B)

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