…virtually all vertebrate animals and all the primates with whom we are closely associated show certain characteristics which are, as Nietzsche said, all too human. For example, all of them have this drive for what is called territory, for territoriality. They…

…therefore I am. And more recently, beginning with the Maine de Biron in the 18th century, and going on with Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, and more recently with Bergson, William James, and Dewey, the I has been defined as the creature who wills, that instead…

…system which moves inexorably forward in this one way. And the whole notion of an eternal recurrence, which as late as Nietzsche was preached by some philosophers, has really gone out of the picture altogether. And we consequently think of the future in…