"For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a

world older and more complete than ours, they move

finished and complete, gifted with the extension

of the senses we have lost or never attained,

living by voices we shall never hear. They are not

brethren, they are not underlings: they are other

nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life

and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of

the earth."

                         The Outermost House

                                  Henry Beston