Throughout time we have seen the complete degradation of the human race. From our morals to the way we treat one another our society has become selfish and materialistic only caring for themselves and their own problems, never making a step to help a neighbor in need. Mark Twain believed that even though our society has a conception of being the superior race we are far from it; humans have revolutionized to become a race that is completely careless and cruel.
Mark Twain doesn't agree with the Theory of Evolution, Darwin believed that by revolutionizing we were becoming a better version of ourselves each time while Twain objected by stating that instead of moving forward we were slowly ...view middle of the document...
He compared the English Earl to an anaconda and found that the anaconda only kills what it can eat and doesn't waste anything. "The fact stood proven that the difference between an earl and an anaconda is that the earl is cruel and the anaconda isn't." He watched the anaconda only kill one calf because that is all it could eat, compared to the earl who enjoyed watching all the buffalo die and he only ate one. This shows how inconsiderate and careless the human race really is, we enjoy to watch others suffer and to kill just for the pure satisfaction of it.
Mark Twain’s essay “The Damned Human Race” also shows how he believed the human race is flawed and corrupt. Twain talked about how man is the only religious animal. This ties into how the human race is unwilling to compromise and incapable of learning. He shows the example of how a dog, a cat, a rabbit, a fox, a goose, a squirrel, some doves, and a monkey can be taught to be friends. Yet with an Irish Catholic, a Scotch Presbyterian, a Turk, a Greek Christian, an Armenian, a Methodist, a Buddhist, a Brahman, and a Salvation Army Colonel there is no chance of friendship and they all would end up killing one another. This is utterly senseless if you think about the idea of the food chain for animals, and how in nature it is natural for the fox to kill the rabbit but with religion in the human race there is no food chain. How can one say a certain religion is higher than another? It makes you realize the social, moral, and religious corruption that occurs all over the world. Twain is making fun of cultures and humanity but he is making an important point while doing it.
