Monday, September 09, 2013
Enormous Conceit
John Muir (1838-1914), "Wild Wool," The Overland Monthly 14.4 (April 1875) 361-366 (at 364):
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No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in the way of a right understanding of the relations which culture sustains to wildness, as that which declares that the world was made especially for the uses of men. Every animal, plant, and crystal controverts it in the plainest terms. Yet it is taught from century to century as something ever new and precious, and in the resulting darkness the enormous conceit is allowed to go unchallenged.
