A lecturer, expatiating on the nature of man, remarked that one point of distinction between human beings and the lower animals consisted in capacity for progress. “Man,” he exclaimed, “is a progressive beiim-; other creatures are stationary. Take, for example, the ass. Always and everywhere it is tiie same creature. You have never seen, and you never will see, a more perfect ass than you see at the present moment.”
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Evening Star, Issue 18051, 19 August 1922, Page 4
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70Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 Evening Star, Issue 18051, 19 August 1922, Page 4
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