"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man."
"It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another...we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the highest. - A bee doubtless would [use] ... instincts as a criteria."
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Source: Charles Darwin (2010). “Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies”, p.427, OUP Oxford
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