“ A little child may find companionship in many strange and simple creatures, but to a grown man there must be some semblance of equality in intellect as the basis for agreeable association. ”
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (1912). copy citation
| Author | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
|---|---|
| Source | Tarzan of the Apes |
| Topic | equality association |
| Date | 1912 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/78/78-h/78-h.htm |
Context
“So limited was their vocabulary that Tarzan could not even talk with them of the many new truths, and the great fields of thought that his reading had opened up before his longing eyes, or make known ambitions which stirred his soul.
Among the tribe he no longer had friends as of old. A little child may find companionship in many strange and simple creatures, but to a grown man there must be some semblance of equality in intellect as the basis for agreeable association.
Had Kala lived, Tarzan would have sacrificed all else to remain near her, but now that she was dead, and the playful friends of his childhood grown into fierce and surly brutes he felt that he much preferred the peace and solitude of his cabin to the irksome duties of leadership amongst a horde of wild beasts.”
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