TOOTH AND CLAW 



yet one sees scores of these animals to one weasel or 

 mink. 



How our domestic animals would suffer if they 

 had the gift of ideation and knew what awaited 

 them! Pope anticipated me when he wrote: 



"The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day. 

 Had he thy reason could he skip and play? 



"Pleased to the last he crops the flowery food, 

 And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." 



If the horse only knew his own strength, and 

 knew that he had "rights," would there not soon be 

 a horse rebellion? Would the swine and the cattle 

 fatten in their pens and stalls if they knew what is 

 before them? Animals suffer no mental anguish 

 either over the past or concerning the future; they 

 live in the present moment; no future looms before 

 them, no past haunts their memories. Their pain is 

 brief, their joy is unconscious; they live to feed and 

 breed; they slay without penalties, and they are 

 slain without remorse; they find their place and live 

 their day, and Mother Nature reaps the harvest. 



Would we have a world without struggle or pain 

 or friction of any kind? Good means ease, leisure, 

 security; but it means something more: it means 

 achievement, victory, the overcoming of evil, the 

 development of power, the making of the world a 

 better place to live in, and much more. Is Nature a 

 tyrant because we have to earn our living? Because 



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