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Origin of the Specious |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Ashley Montagu |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1989 |
| Size: 4,737 Words, 26,869 Characters |
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THE VIOLENT IMAGINATION
Robin Fox
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1989
204 pp., $22.95
Man is the only 150-pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor. Add to this the grim fact that he is wholly without those determinants of behavior called instincts, and therefore has to learn everything he comes to know and do as a human being from other human beings, and you have quite a problem: a helpless creature who is in danger from the moment he is born, and even before. We, of course, share a great many traits with other living creatures, but as human beings we are unique in our incomparable ability to learn, to think, and to speak. In short, we are the most educable of all creatures. Indeed, the dimensions of our educability togeth...
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... to make life mean anything.
Lucretius' great epic was unfinished when he died. While The Violent Imagination is a finished work, Fox, happily, has many years before him, during the course of which we may look forward to further contributions from his pen, the enlightenment and entertainment of Homo sapiens. In the interim, his book deserves accolades, attention, and a wide readership.
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