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The following is an excerpt of Mark Twain’s long essay, “The Damned Human Race.” Twain is, as always, our blessed American satirist, using wit to point out our human flaws as individuals and as a society.

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I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the lower animals (so-called), and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result 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 the 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.

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Logan K Logan K (May 04 2020 9:59AM) : Builds up ethos during this paragraph. As I read it he clearly knows what he is talking about
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Lily N Lily N (May 28 2020 7:12PM) : This essay talks about man and how though through everything, we have over time ruined humanity. We are careless and have put ourselves in our war that we can't escape from.
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Kyle B Kyle B (May 19 2020 2:31PM) : Establishes his credibility right away by detailing his study of animals we would think are inferior but making a comparison with us. This also establishes his point right away.
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Zoe R Zoe R (May 07 2020 4:00PM) : he feels ashamed to be associated with these kind of creatures that are called the human race.
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Mariya L Mariya L (May 10 2020 10:16AM) : He makes this sentence shorter than the rest in the paragraph to really put emphasis on the fact that he is ashamed.
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In proceeding toward this unpleasant conclusion I have not guessed or speculated or conjectured, but have used what is commonly called the scientific method.

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Jadyn T Jadyn T (May 05 2020 2:18PM) : He shows how he has credibility, and hasn't just been guessing on this but actually used scientific method. So that shows how the rest of the article is going to be reliable not just his opinions. [Edited]
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Chenoa F Chenoa F (May 05 2020 4:39PM) : Given that it's Twain and he's a satirist, do you think he's actually using the scientific method? Or is he merely drawing conclusions based on his observations?
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Some of my experiments were quite curious. In the course of my reading I had come across a case where, many years ago, some hunters on our Great Plains organized a buffalo hunt for the entertainment of an English earl. They had charming sport. They killed seventy-two of those great animals; and ate part of one of them and left the seventy-one to rot. In order to determine the difference between an anaconda and an earl (if any) I caused seven young calves to be turned into the anaconda’s cage. The grateful reptile immediately crushed one of them and swallowed it, then lay back satisfied. It showed no further interest in the calves, and no disposition to harm them. I tried this experiment with other anacondas; always with the same result. The fact stood proven that the difference between an earl and an anaconda is that the earl is cruel and the anaconda isn’t; and that the earl wantonly destroys what he has no use for, but the anaconda doesn’t. This seemed to suggest that the anaconda was not descended from the earl. It also seemed to suggest that the earl was descended from the anaconda, and had lost a good deal in the transition.

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Angela G Angela G (May 04 2020 10:37AM) : Builds up ethos with gaining credit for what experiments he's done and what he has come across.
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Meghan M Meghan M (May 04 2020 6:12PM) : When talking about the buffalo you get the thought like thats cruel and then Twain shows an experiment and like expresses the common thought that the hunters were cruel.
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Kayli F Kayli F (May 25 2020 2:56PM) : uses logos with how many aniamls were killed adding to the emotion of the piece
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Hailey A Hailey A (May 05 2020 2:27PM) : Compares an English earl to an anaconda. Twain does this to show that anacondas, even though they are seen as predators are less cruel than an English earl. This shows that humans are the more hurtful species not animals.
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Chenoa F Chenoa F (May 05 2020 4:42PM) : Good, Hailey. It's important to recognize the reason for his choice of the anaconda. As you've indicated, he's comparing the predatory natures of the anaconda and the British nobility.
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Nisse R Nisse R (Jun 05 2020 10:52PM) : he compairs man to animal, man should be more civil and posses morals, but it is proven that the animal is the one who posseses them
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Jordyn A Jordyn A (May 07 2020 4:27PM) : A contrast of a human who kills what he doesn't need, and a snake who only kills what it does need. Humans are always trying to show how powerful they can be, but an anaconda(and most animals)already know how powerful they can be and has nothing to prove.
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I was aware that many men who have accumulated more millions of money than they can ever use have shown a rabid hunger for more, and have not scrupled to cheat the ignorant and the helpless out of their poor servings in order to partially appease that appetite. I furnished a hundred different kinds of wild and tame animals the opportunity to accumulate vast stores of food, but none of them would do it. The squirrels and bees and certain birds made accumulations, but stopped when they had gathered a winter s supply, and could not be persuaded to add to it either honestly or by chicane. In order to bolster up a tottering reputation the ant pretended to store up supplies, but I was not deceived. I know the ant. These experiments convinced me that there is this difference between man and the higher animals: he is avaricious and miserly; they are not.

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Meghan M Meghan M (May 04 2020 6:14PM) : Continues to compare humans to animals in a situation where the animal always looks better
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Chenoa F Chenoa F (May 05 2020 4:41PM) : Yes. This is a general summary of his structure. What is the effect of this structure, Meghan?
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Hailey A Hailey A (May 05 2020 2:31PM) : Uses a short sentence to make it stand out more

Using the short sentence it shows the reader that Twain can relate to the ant pretending to have a lot of supplies because humans do the same thing

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In the course of my experiments I convinced myself that among the animals man is the only one that harbors insults and injuries, broods over them, waits till a chance offers, then takes revenge. The passion of revenge is unknown to the higher animals.

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Olivia P Olivia P (May 04 2020 12:50PM) : Is kind of making fun of how men can be so keen on getting revenge that we are in a way lesser than animals
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Will M Will M (May 11 2020 12:32PM) : Refers to other animals as higher animals but not humans.
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Kayli F Kayli F (May 25 2020 2:59PM) : Implies that humans are the only race that seeks revenge but well doing so used animal like attributes to compare them to animals such as "broods" and "harbors"
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Roosters keep harems, but it is by consent of their concubines; therefore no wrong is done. Men keep harems but it is by brute force, privileged by atrocious laws, which the other sex were allowed no hand in making. In this matter man occupies a far lower place than the rooster.

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Nisse R Nisse R (Jun 05 2020 10:55PM) : he continues to make poins about the crulty and need for power that man has
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Hailey M Hailey M (May 08 2020 7:57PM) : He uses the comparison of rooster and men to help show the wrongdoing in society. Is also makes it seem as if rooster are better and act better than men.
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Cats are loose in their morals, but not consciously so. Man, in his descent from the cat, has brought the cats looseness with him but has left the unconsciousness behind (the saving grace which excuses the cat). The cat is innocent, man is not.

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Katarina A Katarina A (May 16 2020 11:54PM) : He keeps bringing in more and more animal traits, in order to try and prove that man is worse off then certain characteristics in animals.
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Jadyn T Jadyn T (May 05 2020 2:24PM) : Keeps showing how the animals are better than the Man, and uses the short sentence of "The cat is innocent, man is not" which puts emphasis on his research of how brutally honest he is being that men aren't innocent.
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Zoe R Zoe R (May 07 2020 4:11PM) : I think he is trying to say something was not right in the way these men were brought up, but they can change if they really want. it's not their morals fault but their conscious is at fault.
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Jordyn A Jordyn A (May 08 2020 11:30AM) : He is using many different example to prove his point being that animals are better than humans, due to their nature which is doing only what they need to do, as humans are always trying to go above and beyond which is not necessary.

Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity (these are strictly confined to man); he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing; they are not ashamed. Man, with his soiled mind, covers himself. He will not even enter a drawing room with his breast and back naked, so alive are he and his mates to indecent suggestion. Man is The Animal that Laughs. But so does the monkey, as Mr. Darwin pointed out; and so does the Australian bird that is called the laughing jackass. No! Man is the Animal that Blushes. He is the only one that does it or has occasion to.

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Olivia P Olivia P (May 04 2020 1:10PM) : Constantly says "Man..." and capitalizes while he doesn't capitalize any other animal name. I think he does this to put emphasis on what the man is doing and how he is acting.
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Chenoa F Chenoa F (May 05 2020 4:43PM) : Good attention to detail, Olivia.
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Maja B Maja B (Jun 02 2020 6:34PM) : In this paragraph, the author repeatedly begins his sentences with the word Man. This helps single out the differences between man and all other animals.
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Hailey M Hailey M (May 08 2020 8:02PM) : By saying men are the only animals who are indecent, vulgar, and obscene he not only shows disgust for man but also that for being a more sophisticated animal they do not seem to be any better than other animals
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Isaiah A Isaiah A (May 20 2020 11:17AM) : You're right, but I think the more important part is that man invented these things, which shows humans are not only the only creatures capable of them but are the driving force behind them as well
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The higher animals engage in individual fights, but never in organized masses. Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and with calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out, as the Hessians did in our Revolution, and as the boyish Prince Napoleon did in the Zulu war, and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.

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Katherine G Katherine G (May 26 2020 12:34PM) : This paragraph illistarts how no other animal ever is like man in the sense that human are the only creature that will kill one another in mass killings in an act that we so prodly take pride in called war.
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Man is the only animal that robs his helpless fellow of his country, takes possession of it, and drives him out of it or destroys him. Man has done this in all the ages. There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle after cycle, by force and bloodshed.

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Lauren E Lauren E (May 06 2020 7:12PM) : is talking about how humans don't appreciate the land and the world and they start to destroy it along a period of time and how humans just keep taking over.
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Lily N Lily N (May 28 2020 7:06PM) : This paragraph use an event that happened in history to put in detail the type of "animal" man is. How man is violent an cruel and everything is out of hate.
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Man is the only Slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another. In our day he is always some man’s slave for wages, and does that man’s work; and this slave has other slaves under him for minor wages, and they do his work. The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living.

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Will M Will M (May 11 2020 12:25PM) : First two sentences are short for emphasis.
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Chenoa F Chenoa F (May 11 2020 12:43PM) : Good, Will. What is it emphasizing?
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Katherine G Katherine G (May 26 2020 12:38PM) : He is emphasizing that that we are the only being that will enslave those who are our kind and will eventually become slaves to the society that we as humans have created. That no other animal that was will to put one asspent of themselves above another more

human and that go and call them unworthy of their right as living beings in this world

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Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people’s countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns, he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man, with his mouth.

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Man is the Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion, several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself, and cuts his throat if his theology isn’t straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother’s path to happiness and heaven. He was at it in the time of the Caesars, he was at it in Mahomet’s time, he was at it in the time of the Inquisition, he was at it in France a couple of centuries, he was at it in England in Mary’s day, he has been at it ever since he first saw the light, he is at it today in Crete (as per the telegrams quoted above) he will be at it somewhere else tomorrow. The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out, in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.

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Logan K Logan K (May 04 2020 10:03AM) : Repeats “Man is the____” to show how different we are from animals and how cruel we can be sometimes
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Mariya L Mariya L (May 10 2020 10:25AM) : I agree with Logan. In the first three paragraphs where he starts saying "Man is the" right after he says "only". I think it really puts power and pushes what he is trying to say, just by using that one word.
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Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal. Note his history, as sketched above. It seems plain to me that whatever he is he is not a reasoning animal. His record is the fantastic record of a maniac. I consider that the strongest count against his intelligence is the fact that with that record back of him he blandly sets himself up as the head animal of the lot: whereas by his own standards he is the bottom one.

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Cole R Cole R (May 04 2020 3:13PM) : Is commenting on people in power not living up to the standards that they hold other people to.

And so I find that we have descended and degenerated, from some far ancestor (some microscopic atom wandering at its pleasure between the mighty horizons of a drop of water perchance) insect by insect, animal by animal, reptile by reptile, down the long highway of smirch-less innocence, until we have reached the bottom stage of development (namable as the Human Being). Below us, nothing.

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corrin h corrin h (May 04 2020 11:17AM) : I agree with his last sentence. Humanity is slowly dooming this earth, thinking they are far more superior than everything else, when they aren't.
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Chenoa F Chenoa F (May 05 2020 4:46PM) : (Corrin, I have been watching John Krasinski's weekly SGN--Some Good News--episodes on YouTube. If any of you want to feel better about humanity, check these out. They bring me tears of joy that make me feel more faith in humanity.)
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Lauren E Lauren E (Jun 06 2020 9:38AM) : He ends this paragraph with a short sentence which puts emphasis on the fact that after us there is nothing and the human race can't ruin the world.
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Angela G Angela G (May 04 2020 10:41AM) : Shorter sentence to kind of put everything together and wrap everything up.
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Maja B Maja B (Jun 02 2020 6:38PM) : I agree, he wanted to end the entire piece with one clear, final statement to get his point across.
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Katarina A Katarina A (May 16 2020 11:56PM) : He wants to make his point very clear and leave the reader with no room to argue which is the sense that you get with the shorter sentences at the end.

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