Max Nordau. (№ 412498)

Wherever we look in prehistoric times, we will encounter man as a herd animal that in no case could exist if it did not possess the instincts that determine living together, that is, sympathy and a certain degree of selflessness. We find these instincts even in monkeys, and if they are absent in the breeds most similar to humans, in the orangutan and the gibbon, then this in the eyes of some researchers serves as sufficient evidence that these breeds degenerated and became extinct. Hence, it is not true that man has ever been a "lonely prowling animal.