Wee bit like the British Empire.--
---( What a rotten lot we were. )
Back in his early days that was the way it was. Hindsight is such a wonderful thing. Pity we are not born with it.---
QUOTE: I was an avid reader of his Zoo Quest books when I was a lad.
The line of yours that I quoted really says it all.
We all, then, ( at that time ) probably saw no wrong in it.----
I see his 'enlightened' attempts as trying to put right something that in modern times now appears appalling.---
---Don't really understand the bit in your post about a guilt trip though.
Unless of course that you see us all on guilt trips when we try to right a wrong we have inadvertently done.
Like saying to the missus your bum looks fat in that darling.---
----Now THAT could cost a fortune to put right.-----Lol.