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… John Gray - Mind the Gap | Literary Review | Issue 462. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

We have been taught to think that our distinctively human activities originate in a recently evolved capacity for conscious thought, when in truth they are offshoots from life’s primordial beginnings. Not only social cooperation and the institutions of government but also art and religion spring from our essential nature as feeling beings. As Damasio writes with lapidary beauty, ‘A life not felt would have needed no cure.’

Perhaps that is why poetry seems to have come into being almost as soon as language and why our thought-processes began with myth-making.