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Quotation from History of Animals by Aristotle
“And of necessity, man must be the best known to us of all animals”
History of Animals, Book I, Ch. VI, §5, trans. Richard Cresswell (1862)
Aristotle justifies beginning his survey of animal parts with the human body, the familiar standard against which others are measured.
Citation: "And of necessity, man must be the best known to us of all animals" — Aristotle, History of Animals, Book I, Ch. VI, §5, trans. Richard Cresswell (1862). (id aristotle-history-of-animals-q1)
