I think what I'm trying to say is this (though who knows?)...
that Mr Cope implies we made a great mistake when we broke our harmonious link with nature, whereas I wonder if there was ever any such harmony to be lost. Nature is never truly Edenic, always a bit scary and our ideal has always been a situation where we can control it to some degree and this remains in our deepest feelings today.
I can offer zero evidence for this, other than psychological evidence, gathered by self-analysis on Crickley Hill this afternoon!
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