Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human.
We feed upon each other's mouths and minds like ants with social stomachs.
Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.
The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest through the wide range of linguistics, archeology, folklore, philology, ethnobotany, plant ecology, human physiology, and prehistory constitutes an object lesson to all holistic professional students of man.
