![]() ![]() ![]() Cuppy seems to have been something of a perfectionist, unable to finish his books. He lived in primitive times before the invention of the computer. ![]() ![]() His “distinguished” friend Fred Feldkamp tells us that Cuppy collected thousands and thousands of items of information and placed them in cardboard boxes. We call him a humorist, that is, a philosopher who sees relations and thus makes us laugh. Did Cuppy learn of our complicated nature by watching the monkeys, or by watching the people watching the monkeys? Depending on your scientific theories, it could work either way, I suppose.Ĭuppy wrote for the New Yorker and the Herald Tribune. One is hard-pressed to know what to make of such a sentence. He is said to have learned most of his insights about human nature from sitting in the Bronx Zoo. He was going to study for a doctorate, but changed his mind to move to New York, with a cabin on Jones Island. He spent the summer on a farm, went to local schools, then to the University of Chicago. Will Cuppy (1884–1949) was born in Indiana. I also became much more careful about who my friends were. But I confess to have learned much from Cuppy’s homey examples. No doubt today he would be forbidden to consult Cuppy, as apes are our friends. We used to have an ethics teacher in Spokane who, when he wanted to give an example of some intricate moral point, would pull out his dog-eared copy of Will Cuppy’s book, How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes. ![]()
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