But we are also related, albeit more and more distantly, to mice and fish and beetles and mushrooms and oak trees and so on, outwards to the humblest bacterium.
Longer term, it has the potential to transform even the humblest it operation into something quite new.
Not even the humblest household object is made without a microprocessor.
Please accept my cordial and humblest apologies.
Everyone is making contingency plans, from the humblest shoe-shine boy to the grandest diplomat.
At that last crossroad where thought hesitates, many men have arrived and even some of the humblest. They then abdicated what was most precious to them, their life.
They would have vainly sought - had they ever dreamed of seeking - to express the highest truths through the humblest medium of familiar words and images.