What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-blind or not-a good world to live in, a promising universe.... We once thought we lived on God's footstool; it may be a throne.
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Day, Clarence. This Simian World. Alfred A. Knopf, 1920, ch. 19.
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