Interuniversal Who’s Who
BARASTS (Homo neanderthalensis)
The belief in God has often been advanced as not only the greatest, but the most complete of all the distinctions between man and the lower animals.
—CHARLES DARWIN, The Descent of Man
And let me tell you, God is not so infinite as the Catholics assert. He is about six hundred meters in diameter, and even then is weak towards the edges.
—KAREL CAPEK, The Absolute at Large
Mankind was still divided into two species: The few who had “speculation” in their souls, and the many who had none, with a belt of hybrids in the middle.
—JOHN GALSWORTHY, To Let
Chapter One
“My fellow Americans—and all other human beings on this version of Earth—it gives me great pleasure to address you this evening, my first major speech as your new president. I wish to talk about the future of our kind of hominid, of the species known as Homo sapiens: people of wisdom…”
“Mare,” said Ponter Boddit, “it is my honor to introduce you to Lonwis Trob.”