J C wrote: > Man's conflict with "himself" is the SAME THING as man's conflict with > nature. > 'Fraid not. Lessee--what were those 4 conflicts we learned about in 8th grade lit? Man against self, man against man, man against nature, man against god. Think that's it. > Nature is the one thing that we all belief we're separate from, or > "above". But guess what, we're not. We act according to human > NATURE. We cannot avoid acting according to human NATURE. Ironically > enough, part of that human NATURE is a tendency to be arrogant and > elitist. > Nature in the sense of "some property habitually pertaining to the object under discussion" is not at all the same thing as nature in the sense of "the unimproved ecosystem & everything in it." Snarkhunter