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Unit 9 The Damned Human Race

Mark Twain

I Background Information

Author

Mark Twain (1835-1901):

II Questions to the text

1. Which of the following words can best describe this essay? Serious and matter-of-fact? Scientifically detached and objective? Hilariously humorous? Bitterly satirical?

2. What is the main idea of this essay? What is the Darwinian theory? How does the author come to doubt this? Is that the result of scientific experiment?

3. Is Mark Twain serious when he says that he has done many months of painstaking and fatiguing work in the London Zoological Garden? What effect do you think he hopes to achieve with this mock seriousness?

4. How does the author contrast human beings with other animals?

5. Please list the specific human traits and dispositions that he condemns in this essay.

6. Why does he say that man is the cruel animal? What examples does he give to illustrate the point? What arguments does the author give to support his views?

7. Do you think we should take Mark Twain?s views seriously? Do you agree with him? Are we really that bad? Isn?t there some saving grace in the human race?

8. What devices does the author use to make the article interesting?

III Detailed explanation to the text

Questions to paras. 1~2

1) Why does the author mimicking a scientific experiment?

2) What is the author?s research topic/purpose?

3) What is the hypothesis?

4) What theory does he check?

5) What is his research method?

6) Where does the research take place?

1. I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals”, and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. (→1)

Paraphrase:

traits and dispositions:

humiliating:

2. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals and to name it the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals. (→1)

Paraphrase:

to oblige sb to do sth:

to renounce:

allegiance:.

3. In proceeding toward this unpleasant conclusion I have not guessed or speculated or conjectured, but have used what is commonly called the scientific method. (→1) Paraphrase:

to proceed toward a conclusion:

to guess or speculate or conjecture:

what is commonly called the scientific method:

4. That is to say, I have subjected every postulate that presented itself to the crucial test of actual experiment. (→2)

Paraphrase:

to subject sth/sb to sth:

Postulate:

that presented itself:.

5. These experiments were made in the London Zoological Gardens, and covered many moths of painstaking and fatiguing work. (→2)

the London Zoological Gardens (i. e. the London Zoo):

to cover:

Questions to Para. 3

1) In this part, the author compares _______ with ______.

2) What gives him the idea to make such a comparison?

3) How does he make the comparison?

4) What conclusion does he come to?

6. 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---that, and to provide some fresh meat for his table. (→3)

the Great Plains:

earl:

duke; marquis；earl (count)；viscount；baron

for his table:

7. 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. (→3)

if any:

to cause seven young calves to be turned into…:

calf:

Please find more examples like “calf”

8. The facts stood proven that the difference between an earl and an anaconda is that the earl is cruel and the anaconda isn’t. (→3)

to stand:

9. It also seemed to suggest that the earl was descended from the anaconda, and had lost a good deal in the transition. (→3)

Paraphrase:

to be descended from sb:

Questions to Para. 4

1) In this part, the author compares human race with ______.

2) What gives him the idea to make such a comparison?

3) How does he make the comparison?

4) What conclusion does he come to?

10. 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 savings in order to partially appease that appetite. (→4)

Paraphrase:

rabid:

to have not scrupled to do sth:

cheat sb out of sth:

the ignorant and helpless:

to appease:

11. These experiments convinced me that there is this difference between man and the higher animals; he is avaricious and miserly, they are not. (→4)

avaricious:

Questions to Para. 5

1) In this part, the author compares human race with ______.

2) What conclusion does he come to?

12. … 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. (→5)

Paraphrase:

to harbor:

to brood over:

to take revenge:

Questions to Para. 6

1) In this part, the author compares human race with ______.

2) What the difference between them in keeping harems? Why roosters are innocent while man is not?

3) Conclusion?

13. Roosters keep harems, but it is by consent of their concubines; … Men keep harems, but it is by brute force, privileged by atrocious laws which the other sex were allowed no hand in making. (→6)

consent:

brute force:

to allow sb no hand in doing sth:

Questions to Para. 7

1) In this part, the author compares human race with ______.

2) What?re the similarity and difference between cats and man?

3) Why cats can be excused but man cannot?

4) What conclusion does he come to?

14. Cats are loose in their morals, but not consciously so. Man, in his descent from the cat, has brought the cat’s looseness with him but ha s left the unconsciousness behind—the saving grace which excuses the cat. (→7)

Paraphrase:

to be loose in morals:

the saving grace:

Questions to Para. 8

1) What point does the author want to make in this paragraph?

2) According to the author, what?s wrong for man being the only animal that blushes?

15. Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity—these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. (→8)

these are strictly confined to man; he invented them:

16. Man, with his soiled mind, covers himself. (→8)

Paraphrase:

soiled:

17. … so alive are he and his mates to indecent suggestion. (→8)

Paraphrase:

to be alive to:

indecent suggestion:

18. 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. (→8)

Paraphrase:

the laughing jackass:

19. No---Man is the Animal that Blushes. He is the only one that does it --- or has occasion to. (→8) Paraphrase:

to have occasion to do sth:

According to Mark Twain, why only man needs to blush?

Questions to Para. 9

1) In this part, the author compares human race with ______. 2) What gives him the idea to make such a comparison? 3) How does he make the comparison?

4) What conclusion does he come to?

Match the cruelty

5) Pay attention to the tense. What does present tense suggest?

20. At the head of this article we see how “three monks were burnt to death” a few days ago, and a prior “put to death with atrocious cruelty”. (→9)

Note: As this is a slightly abridged version, the part about the three monks is not to be found in the present text.

prior: (n.)

(Note: Do not mix up this word with the adjective “prior ” which means “before ”.) to be put to death:

21. … the prior was subjected to unprintable mutilations. (→9) to be subjected to:

Compare:

to project (pro-: ); to inject (in-: ); to reject (re-: ); to eject (e-: ); to

deject (de-: )

22. Man---…when he is King John, with a nephew to render untroublesome, he uses

a red-hot iron … (→9)

Paraphrase:

King John:

to render sb untroublesome:

Note:making trouble for him (King John?s throne had been stolen from his nephew. Therefore he thought his nephew posed a threat to him.)

23. … when he is a religious zealot dealing with heretics in the Middle Ages, he skins his captive alive and scatters salt on his back… (→9)

Religious zealot:

The Middle Ages:

24. … in the first Richard’s time he shuts up a multitude of Jew families in a tower and sets fire to it… (→9)

the first Richard:

Jew families: (should be) Jewish families (Notice that when used as an adjective, Jewish is preferred to Jew.)

to set fire to:

Notice that it does not mean the same as “to make/light a fire” or “to build a fire”.

25. … in our day in England a man is fined ten shillings for beating his mother nearly to death with a chair, and another man is fined forty shillings for having four pheasant eggs in his possession without being able to satisfactorily explain how he got them. (→9)

How do you understand this sentence?

for having four pheasant eggs in his possession without being able to satisfactorily explain how he got them :

26. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. (→9) Paraphrase:

to inflict on sb :

27. The cat is moderate—unhumanly moderate, … she doesn’t dig out its eyes, … or

drive splinters under its nails—man-fashion; when she is done playing with it, she makes a sudden meal of it and puts it out of its trouble. (→9)

unhumanly moderate:

man-fashion:

to be done doing sth :

to make a meal of:

to put sb out his trouble:

28. Man is the Cruel Animal. He is alone in that distinction. (→9)

in that distinction:

Questions to Para. 10

1) What problem does the author address in this paragraph?

2) What distinguishes human beings from other animals in terms of fighting?

3) What i s the author?s attitude towards wars? How does he make his attitude explicit by choice of words?

4) What do you know about the “Hessians”?

29. The higher animals engage in individual fights, but never in organized masses. Man is the only one that deals in the atrocity of atrocities, War. (→10) Paraphrase:

to engage in:

to deal in:

atrocity:

the atrocity of atrocities:

30. He is the only animal that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth is cold blood and with calm pulse to exterminate his kind. (→10)

in cold blood and with calm pulse:

to exterminate:

31. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out, as the Hessians did in our Revolution, and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel. (→10)

Sordid:

Hessians:

Compare: to kill; to butcher; to murder; to assassinate; to massacre

Question to Para. 11

What is the problem unique to human race mentioned in this paragraph?

32. There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner… (→11)

Paraphrase:

What did Mark Twain mean?

Question to Para. 12

What is the difference between human beings and other animals in terms of working?

33. 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. (→12)

Please explain it.

to hold sb in bondage: to keep sb in the state of being a slave

Questions to Para. 13

1) What is the author?s attitude towards the so called “patriotism”?

2) What is the author?s tone?

3) Who are the “uniformed assassins”?

4) Who is the one who “washes the blood off his hands and—works for the …universal brotherhood of man?”?

5) What does the author mean by “washing the blood off his hands”?

6) What does “with his mouth” mean?

34. Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people’s countries… (→13) Paraphrase:

What attitude did Mark Twain hold toward colonialist and imperialist wars of his time?

to set oneself apart from …:

uniformed assassins:

on hand:

at heavy expense:

35. … and in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and---works for “the universal brotherhood of man” ---with his mouth. (→13) Paraphrase:

to work for … with his mouth:

the universal brotherhood of man:

Questions to Para. 14

1) What is the author?s attitude towards religion reflected in this paragraph?

2) “We were told” by whom that “they are going to be left out”?

36. Man is the Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion---several of them. (→14)

Please explain it.

37. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself, and cuts his throat if his theology isn’t straight. (→14)

Paraphrase:

straight:

38. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother’s path to happiness and heaven. (→14)

Paraphrase:

to make a graveyard of (a place):

to smooth the path to:

39. He was at it in the time of the Caesar’s, he was at it in Mohammed’s time, he was at it in the time of the inquisition, he was at it in France for a couple of centuries, he was at it in England in Mary’s day, he ha s been at it ever since he first saw the light. (→14)

to be at sth:

the Caesars:

Mohammed:

inquisition:

(Queen) Mary:

to see the light:

40. And we are told that they are going to be left out, in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste. (→14)

Paraphrase:

in the Hereafter:

questionable taste:

41. Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. (→15)

Paraphrase:

to be open to dispute:

42. It seems plain to me that whatever he is he is not a reasoning animal. (→15) Paraphrase:

Whatever he is:

Questions to Paras. 16-17)

1) In this part, the author compares _______ with ______.

2) How does he make the comparison (how does he conduct the experiment)?

3) What conclusion does he come to?

4) What happened in the cage where several men were kept?

5) W hat does the author mean by saying “These Religious animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court”? Where is the “Higher Court”?

43. Next, in another cage I confined an Irish Catholic, and then as soon as he seemed tame I added a Scotch Presbyterian. Next a Turk; a Greek Christian; a Methodist from Arkansas; a Buddhist from China. Finally, a Salvation Army Colonel from Wapping. (→17)

Please explain it.

Wapping: a district in the east part of London

Note:Don?t use Scotch as adjective for Scot or Scotland. The Scottish people don?t like it.

Only whiskey is called Scotch.

44. When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was all right, but in the other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and plaids and bones and flesh—not a specimen left alive. (→17)

Paraphrase:

gory:

turbans and plaids:

specimen:

45. These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court. (→17)

Paraphrase:

Higher Court:

46. 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 perhaps… down the long highway of perfect innocence, till …(→17)

Paraphrase:

to do sth at one’s pleasure:

microscopic:

mighty:

the long highway of perfect innocence:

Writing device

Euphemism

…in our day in England a man is fined ten shillings for beating his mother nearly to death with a chair, and another man is fined forty shillings for having four pheasant eggs in his possession without being able to satisfactorily explain how he got them. (Para. 9) (for stealing four pheasant eggs)

Euphemism:a substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant

more examples

old people --

fat people -- penniless --

the poor --

not studying seriously --

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