CHAPTER VII 



AS TO OUSSELVES 



So far in our discussion of the problems 

 of Life, we have not often gone beyond 

 the province of a botanist or of a natural- 

 ist. All that we have said might have 

 its illustrations in the life of a cactus, of 

 a parrot, or of an antelope, because it is 

 only life which we have been investigating, 

 and anything living illustrates life. But 

 all along the way there looms up as its 

 termination and end that which dwarfs 

 everything else, and which was termed by 

 Huxley the Andes of Life Man.* Until 

 the road reaches the base of this great 

 mountain range, our interest in it is not 

 very exciting. We have been gathering 

 just so much scientific information and 



* Huxley, The Place of Man in Nature, pp. 119, 132. 

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