ABILITY to REASON, RIGHT to CONSENT - Proem & Poem No. 33

Most likely to be published sometime in 2018, my 10th book currently entitled; 100 Proems & Poems on the ABILITY to REASON, RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing...

PROEM & POEM No. 33 - To Reason Is Human / 3rd Reprise

      For various fantastical notions, many have sentimentally or philosophically even scientifically experimented to prove humanlike personality in domesticated, trained canine and feline, as well the humanlike ability in captured, manipulated simian and delphinidae. To what end? 

      For as much a bird or beaver build nests and dams to human fascination, they do so consistently without modification, economization and expansion to design, assembly and purpose. Initially the bird, beaver and human quite simply constructed respective structures with twigs, sticks and branches. Comparatively, the fenced dog seems to humanly express per the owner’s disposition, while the confined monkey seems to humanly communicate per the technician’s anticipation. That is to say, it seems so only per human interference, otherwise both dog and monkey would behave as their unfenced and unconfined counterparts have done since their origins.

      Yet it is the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason, inseparably the Singular Human Right to Consent or Not Consent, choosing this over that, then that over this, incrementally modifying or innovating, economizing and expanding, from origin to present, to eventually build with lumber, masonry, concrete, steel and more, while the bird and beaver continue as they have always done with twigs, sticks and branches.

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O the human ability, evolved to be, or divinely breathed
If not intervened, such gardens `tween deserts and heaths
Oft perverted when covetous, degenerately presumptuous
Plunderous, murderous while self-righteously censorious

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

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