Human, All Too Human, Part 43 summary
Part 43 of 152 · 1 min to read the part
In 43, the argument presents inhuman people as surviving examples of earlier civilizations, whose inherited lack of development reveals what humanity once is. It denies their responsibility for this condition and proposes that corresponding structures remain in other human brains, although feeling no longer flows through those paths.
What happens
- The argument treats inhuman people as surviving examples of earlier civilizations.
- A mountain image presents these people as exposing otherwise hidden layers of human development.
- Their condition results from heredity, so they bear no more responsibility for it than granite bears for its nature.
- Comparable traces remain in other human brains, but these paths no longer carry the flow of feeling.

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Why does the argument compare inhuman people to granite?

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