A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest though poor.

Bertrand Russell

Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits

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Man and animals

Author

Bertrand Russell

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Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits

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Philosophical literature

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English

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

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Nobel laureate Philosopher Writer

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Russell, Bertrand. Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits. George, Allen and Unwin/Simon & Schuster, 1948, pt. 2, ch. 1.

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It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood and stench and spilling gut; it came to him that he had sickened and turned away because of his shock at seeing the buffalo, a few moments before proud and noble and full of the dignity of life, now stark and helpless, a length of inert meat, divested of itself, or his notion of its self, swinging grotesquely, mockingly, before him. It was not itself; or it was not that self that he had imagined it to be. That self was murdered; and in that murder he had felt the destruction of something within him, and he had not been able to face it. So he had turned away.

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Language
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Time
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Citation

Williams, John. Butcher's Crossing. Macmillan, 1960, pt. 2, ch. 5.