This breakdown in the bicameral mind in what is called the Intermediate Period is reminiscent at least of those periodic breakdowns of Mayan civilizations when all authority suddenly collapsed, and the population melted back into tribal living in the jungles.

The language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the gods.

Alfred Russel Wallace, the codiscoverer of the theory of natural selection. Following their twin announcements of the theory in 1858, both Darwin and Wallace struggled like Laocoöns with the serpentine problem of human evolution and its encoiling difficulty of consciousness. But where Darwin clouded the problem with his own naivete, seeing only continuity in evolution, Wallace could not do so.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.

We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first.

One does one's thinking before one knows what one is to think about.