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200 14$aThe great chain of life$b[electronic resource] /$fby Joseph Wood Krutch ; with illustrations by Paul Landacre
205   $a1st University of Iowa Press ed.
210   $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$d2009
215   $a1 online resource (247 p.)
225 1 $aSightline books : the Iowa series in literary nonfiction
300   $aOriginally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1956.
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327   $aPrologue; Contents; 1. Basic Forms of Life:  The Simplicity that Isn't Simple; 2. Machinery for Evolution:  Enter Love and Enter Death; 3. The Animal's First Need:  Protein and Original Sin; 4. Parenthood:  With Love and without; 5. The Need for Continuity:  More Lives than One; 6. The Barbarian Mammal:  Homeric Heroes; 7. The Meaning of Awareness:  The You and the Me; 8. Undeveloped Potentialities:  The Civilized Animal; 9. Reverence for Life:  The Vandal and the Sportsman; 10. Devolution:  A Dangerous Experiment; 11. How Right Was Darwin?  New Answers to Old Questions; Epilogue
330   $aOriginally published in 1956, The Great Chain of Life brings a humanist's keen eye and ear to one of the great questions of the ages: "What am I?" A scholar of literature and theater, toward the end of his career Joseph Wood Krutch turned to the study of the natural world. Bringing his keen intellect to bear on the places around him, Krutch crafted some of the most memorable and important works of nature writing extant.  Whether anticipating the arguments of biologists who now ascribe high levels of cognition to the so-called lower animals, recognizing the importance of nature for a well-lived
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