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THE AΡΕ
い。
Though he endeavour all he can
An Ape will never be a Man.
George Wither, Emblemes
But having sailed three daies by fierie Rivers, we arrived in a Gulfe called Notuceras,
that is, the South horne: in the inner part thereof there was a little Iland.
it, and in that there was another Iland full of Savage men, but the women were more:
they had their bodies all over haire, and of our Interpreters they were called Gorgones: we
pursued the men but could take none, for they fled into precipices and defended themselves
with stones; but we tooke three of the women, which did nothing but bite and scrateh those
which had a
Lake
s in
The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? My lord, I am on the side of the
angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence the contrary view, which is, I believe,
that led them, and would not follow them. Therefore they killed them, and flead them, and
brought their skins to Carthage....
forcign to the conscience of humanity.
Hanno, Periplus
Benjamin Disraeli, Speech to the Ozford Diocesan Society
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