HUMAN LIFE 



it is exactly as such that they do interest 

 the biologist. And it is primarily as 

 species that the biologist is interested in 

 humankind that is, when he observes 

 humankind as biologist and not as just 

 one of the rest of us. When one knows 

 animals only as species the interest there 

 fore is chiefly biological ; when one knows 

 animals as individuals they possess a new 

 and special interest. It is this special 

 interest that absorbs most of our atten 

 tion to human kind, which we do know 

 primarily and particularly as individuals. 

 That is what really holds apart, I think, 

 the biologist and the rest of us when the 

 study of man is in question. That is 

 why the biologist s information to us 

 about man seems academic and not 

 pertinent: it leaves us cold. And why 

 the daily newspaper s information about 

 men fascinates and thrills us. And yet 

 and yet the biologist s information, as 

 far as he can confidently go with it, is of 

 huge importance to us as individuals. 

 Taken into account and acted on, it can 

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