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Quick Note
Just a quick note to let you know that A Pensive Moment placed in the top ten in the “Animals Painted in Oils or Acrylics” contest at RedBubble. I’m honored to see Flannery O’Kitten in such esteemed company (especially the bull).
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Chesterton on Darwinism
DARWINISM can be used to back up two mad moralities, but it cannot be used to back up a single sane one. The kinship and competition of all living creatures can be used as a reason for being insanely cruel or insanely sentimental; but not for a healthy love of animals. On the evolutionary basis you may be inhumane, or you may be absurdly humane; but you cannot be human. That you and a tiger are one may be a reason for being tender to a tiger. Or it may be a reason for being as cruel as the tiger. It is one way to train the tiger to imitate you; it is a shorter way to imitate the tiger. But in neither case does evolution tell you how to treat a tiger reasonably — that is, to admire his stripes while avoiding his claws. If you want to treat a tiger reasonably, you must go back to the garden of Eden.
From Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
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