24 THE AFRICAN EXPEDITION AND ITS OBJECTS 



bullet from greater suffering in its after life. So far, however, as 

 the man is concerned it has a different significance. To kill for pure 

 sport cannot but dull the finer elements of human feeling and develop 

 the sentiment of destruction. Yet while there are wild animals there 

 will be hunters. The active, adventurous spirit of man leads him 

 inevitably in this direction, and Roosevelt, in his hunting expedition, 

 aside from the scientific purpose involved, had been yielding to the 

 native instinct derived from primeval man and from which few of us 

 wholly escape. 



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