Perhaps man was neither good nor bad, was only a machine in an insensate universe — his courage no more than a reflex to danger, like the automatic j… - T. H. White

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Perhaps man was neither good nor bad, was only a machine in an insensate universe — his courage no more than a reflex to danger, like the automatic jump at the pin-prick. Perhaps there were no virtues, unless jumping at pin-pricks was a virtue, and humanity only a mechanical donkey led on by the iron carrot of love, through the pointless treadmill of reproduction.