Ohh ab DRD:: ALLIES, 
CHAPTOR I, 
INTRODUCTORY. 
OT the least striking of the many inevitable 
results of human civilisation is the complete 
alteration which consequently takes place in the 
relationship existing between man and the lower 
animals. 
Man, as a primeval and wholly uncivilised being, 
as a mere animal differing only in his higher organi- 
sation from those standing nearest to himself in the 
natural scale, is at enmity only with those creatures 
which, from their superior size and strength, are able 
to prey upon him, or upon which he himself is accus- 
tomed to depend for food. In other words, he stands 
precisely upon a level with every other member of 
the animal kingdom as regards his natural foes. Of 
natural friends he has none, save those which are 
equally friends to the majority of their fellow-creatures, 
for, keeping no cattle and cultivating no crops, 
the different beings which might aid him in these 
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