pg 107: "Man can be distinguished from the animal by consciousness, religion, or anything else you please. He begins to distinguish himself from the animal the moment he begins to produce his means of subsistence, a step required by his physical organization. By producing food, man indirectly produces his material life itself."

Wow, maybe this just hit me and it is no big deal to everyone else, but the fact that man is distinguished from animals because he produces his own means of 'surviving at a minimum' just seems so simple that it must be true. It makes a lot of sense. We are different because we build ways for ourselves to exist, not just flying from flower to flower sucking nectar or hunting down an animal every-time we get hungry. I would argue that religion and consciousness fall in to this same category. They don't help us exist at a physical level, but at a spiritual and emotional level they definitely do.