Just wanted to give a quick shout-out to Wilkins:
Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.
Bertrand Russell
Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
Doorway
Natural History Museum
Oxford
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