![]() ![]() ![]() Historically, plagues, earthquakes, meteors, eclipses and the warnings of religious prophets have been among the principal causes of mass irrational fright. Humanity’s current panic - of global extent, though demonstrated in exaggerated form in the West - touched off by the phenomenon of “climate change” is only the latest historical manifestation of an endemic human trait. My own experience suggests the opposite.Ĭhesterton had obviously not considered herd animals such as cattle, with their keen instinct for panic that Homo sapiens, taken as a species, so often exhibits. Chesterton’s casual statement that the more one gets to know animals, the greater the distance between them and human beings appears. Having a close, lifelong acquaintance with the animal kingdom, from small reptiles and farm animals to dogs and cats of the large and domestic varieties, I disagree with G.K. ![]()
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