still , it is obvious that our particular cognizance and sentience in fairly active and robust frames , although hardly the best in the animal kingdom for physical prowess and altogether untoward and hell bent in rapacious procurement for civilizing the entire world for mans ease even when it altogether upsets the ecosystem , which is as foolish and erroneous a path as any life form can take , have allowed us to exhibit an often inordinate degree of mastery of life , for good or for ill , and with these intellectual faculties our imaginative musings have caused us to arrive at myriad assessments that have been both correct and terribly erroneous .