MAN AND ANIMAL
Man is a species of animal and thus shares many features with other animals. But many differences distinguish man from animals. The basic difference between man and the other animals, the touchstone of his humanity, is the presence of insights and beliefs. Breath of his awareness and cognitions and in the level to which his desires and objects rise. First, the animal's awareness of the world comes solely through its external senses and is, accordingly, external and superficial; it does not reach into the interiors and internal relationships of things. Second, it is individual and particular; it enjoys nothing of university and generality. Third it is localized, limited to the animal's environment.
Fourth, it is immediate, confined to the present. The animal is thus confined in a fourfold prison. If it should perchance emerge, it does so not with awareness by intelligence and choice, but captive to the compulsions of nature, instinctually, without awareness or intelligence. The level of the animal's desires and objects is also limited. First it is material. Second, it is private and individual, related to itself or at the most to its mate and [25] offspring. Third, it is localized and related to its environment. Fourth, it is immediate and related to the present. If the animal pursues an object or moves toward an end that is beyond these confines, this behavior arises unconsciously.
Awareness and Desire in Man
Whether in the area of awareness or desires, human domain reaches much further. Human awareness traverses the exterior bounds of objects and phenomena to penetrate into their interiors and their interrelationships. Human awareness does not remain imprisoned within the limits of locale and place nor does it remain chained to its moment; it journeys through both time and space. Man his own discovering his own past history and contemplating the future. Beyond even, things limitless and eternal. One who transcends discovers general laws and universal truths. Man can also attain an elevated level from the standpoint of desires and objects. Man is a being that seeks values and aspires to virtues and ideals that are not material or utilitarian, that are not restricted to self or at most to mate and offspring, that are general and inclusive and embrace the whole of humanity, that are unconfined to a particular environment, locale, or time period. Man is so devoted to ideals and beliefs that he may at times place them above all else. [26] it is as if the thorn that has pierced another's foot has pierced his own foot, or even his own eye. He commiserates with others; he may grow so attached to his sacred beliefs and ideals that he readily sacrifices to them not only his interest but his whole life and existence.

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