Lowly Worm

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“From the lowly perspective of a dog’s eyes, everyone looks short.”
—Chinese proverb.

“A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.”
—William James (1842–1910)