We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. - Eric Hoffer
Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals. - Marcello Malpighi