In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.
Olaf Stapledon (1972). “Last and first men, and Last men in London”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.