Now they had to walk on their paws

Now they had to walk on their paws and “carry themselves” whereas they had beencarried by the water up till then: a terrible heaviness bore down on them. They feltthey were clumsy at performing the simplest task, they did not have their familiarguide any more for this new, unknown world, those regulating impulses whichunconsciously led them to safety — the poor things were reduced to relying onthinking, Inference, calculation, and the connecting of cause with effect, that is, to relying on their “consciousness”, that most impoverished and error-prone organ!