B11

Mankind's institution of freedom, and our identification of freedom with knowledge, sets us apart from animals. The animal's grasp of freedom is insignificant in comparison, being only the freedom to respond to external stimuli.

IDENTIFY

B12

The nearest creature to us on the evolutionary tree of life,

 EVOLVE

B13

the chimpanzee, cannot retain an image for a sufficient length of time to be to reflect on it.

 SUFFICE

B14

So animal life is largely a matter of conditioned reflexes, performed in an interminable present; in short, animals are little more than machines with consciousness. While the animal is carried along submissively on the stream of time, mankind has certain capacities that empower us to resist the current or look into the future.

CONSCIOUS

B15

Our resourceful invention of language was the first step towards this 'conquest of time'. Language 'fixes' experiences, and places the experience of the past on an equal footing with that of the present.

 RESOURCE

B16

Imagination was bound to follow, as a natural progression from 'labeling' a past experience to conjuring up its mental image.

 IMAGE