The Damned Human Race

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English

 

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Carolyn K

 

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February 21, 2013

 

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He is able to do this by using the scientific method. Characterized as a humorist, Mark Twain demonstrates in "The Damned Human Race" his opinion that man is descended from the higher animals using different experiments to prove his judgments, and finally concludes, with reason, that "we are not as important, perhaps, as we had all along supposed we were" (McDonald, Neilson, and Trotter 456)...
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Before displaying his experiments he stated that he was satisfied with the results and said "that the human race is of one distinct species" and "that the quadrupeds are a distinct family also" (451). In the first experiment Twain involved some hunters of an English earl and an anaconda. By observing the hunt of the earl, which resulted in the killing of 72 buffalo and only one had been eaten, and the anaconda, which had seven calves in its cage, but only ate one and left the others alone, Twain proved simply that the earl hunters are cruel and the anaconda is not...
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