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"Ortega has grasped that essential human nature is inseparable from the hunting and killing of animals and that from this comes the most advanced aspects of human behaviour. Intelligence in our species is a highly specialized function by which natural selection built the hunter's capacity to plan on the intensely social foundation of primate ancestry. The emergence of such complex functions as the unconsciousness, of language, and of dreams are inextricably part of the Paleolithic. Ortega does scorn but affirms this past."
Paul Shepard, in the Introduction to Ortega e Gassett's "Meditations On Hunting"















