There can be no doubt that the difference between the mind of the lowest man and that of the highest animal is immense. An anthrop...omorphous ape, if he could take a dispassionate view of his own case, would admit that though he could form an artful plan to plunder a garden--though he could use stones for fighting or for breaking open nuts, yet that the thought of fashioning a stone into a tool was quite beyond his scope. Still less, as he would admit, could he follow out a train of metaphysical reasoning, or solve a mathematical problem, or reflect on God, or admire a grand natural scene. Some apes, however, would probably declare that they could and did admire the beauty of the coloured skin and fur of their partners in marriage. They would admit, that though they could make other apes understand by cries some of their perceptions and simpler wants, the notion of expressing definite ideas by definite sounds had never crossed their minds. They might insist that they were ready to aid their fellow-apes of the same troop in many ways, to risk their lives for them, and to take charge of their orphans; but they would be forced to acknowledge that disinterested love for all living creatures, the most noble attribute of man, was quite beyond their comprehension. Nevertheless, the difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, is one of degree and not of kind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen:... A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The others "acted" a role; I was the role. She who was Mary Garden died that it might live. That was my genius ... and my sacrific...e. It drained off so much of me that by comparison my private life was empty. I could not give myself completely twice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The kiss of the sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth,--... One is nearer God's heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nowadays, if New York has a heart, it might be the Garden. Almost everyone goes there, for one purpose or another. There are dog s...hows, and Sonja Henie and mass meetings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »