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https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002909064/page/84/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002909064/page/84/mode... (1658) > Loqui vero eos easque

https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002909064/page/84/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002909064/page/84/mode... (1658) > Loqui vero eos easque posse, Iavani aiunt, sed non velle, ne ad labores cogerentur : ridicule me hercules. "Indeed, the Javanese say that [the Orang-utans] are able to speak to them, but they do not want to, lest they should be forced to labor (pull the other one it's got bells on)"

orthoxerox 3y ago
"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars, and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man... for precisely the same reasons."