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need to grow for our own use. It is inevitable that 

 the animal creation, as a whole, shall recede as the 

 earth is subdued to man. But too often this creation 

 has fallen long before its time — fallen as a result of 

 unnecessary killing. 



All the foregoing remarks are meant to illustrate 

 what I believe to be an enlarging vision respecting 

 our own place in the world. The point of view is 

 shifting. The spiritual factors have increasingly 

 more influence in shaping the course of our evolution. 

 The emancipation of which I have spoken — the 

 release from the necessity of taking life — will come, 

 if at all, as a result of our enlarging spiritual outlook 

 rather than as a result of agitations concerned with 

 questions of diet or with any mere propaganda. It 

 is said, on the other hand, that the conformation of 

 man's teeth shows that a flesh diet is necessary, but 

 this only indicates what our evolution has been, not 

 what it will be. The evolution will come slowly, 

 but whatever it may be, we have reason to believe 

 that our points of contact with the nature-world 

 will strengthen and multiply. 



