[Footnote:] The head of a Pike, served at supper, is said to have caused the death from terror of Theodoric the Goth, who imagined the fish's features to be those of Symmachus, a man he had just killed. But for this story, we of today would have no idea what Symmachus looked like.
It is because of his brain that [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.
Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.
All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.