higher-animals

Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.

I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the __ower animals_ (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result profoundly humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.