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that good will follow from the wilful destruction by 

 man of Nature's greatest and most beautiful production 

 a living thing. He poses as a sentimentalist and 

 seems to regard it as the indication of a superior and 

 gentle mind to refuse to sanction the removal or even 

 the temporary discomfort of what Nature has called 

 into life. I, too, claim to be a sentimentalist, but the 

 sentiment which thrills me is one of revolt against the 

 needless and remediable suffering of all humanity 

 suffering which man has brought on himself by his 

 stumbling, half-hearted resistance to Nature's drastic 

 method of purifying and strengthening the race, her 

 remorseless slaughter of the unfit. It is this suffering 

 which some would allow their fellow-men still to endure, 

 now and for generations to come, rather than have their 

 own tranquillity disturbed by the record of that 

 modicum of immediate pain ana sacrifice of animal life 

 which is the price of freedom for mankind from far 

 greater pain hereafter. We have to learn to mitigate 

 and to minimise pain, not to run away from it. It is 

 childish to weep over the distortion and destruction of 

 Nature's products by man's violence and ignorance. 

 What we can and should do is to see that our dealings 

 with this fair earth and its living freight are guided not 

 by vain regret, but by knowledge and foresight. 



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