beak-and-claw

Updated: May 23, 2025

Rousseau had committed the error of excluding the beak-and-claw fight from his thoughts; and Huxley committed the opposite error; but neither Rousseau's optimism nor Huxley's pessimism can be accepted as an impartial interpretation of nature.

kniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin - Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution