Improving on Nature 



love, solicitude, peace, war. Ever hear 

 the talk of cows and calves as nursing 

 time brings them up at the close of day 

 along opposite sides of the pasture 

 fence? Do you need an interpreter to 

 translate the note of deep anxiety in 

 the bovine mother's voice as she sees 

 you haul her blessed "baby" off, pos- 

 sibly to the butcher? Does the child 

 that falls and hurts itself give utter- 

 ance to anything differing especially 

 from the cries of the pig fast in an 

 opening he cannot wriggle through? 

 Surely we are all akin and in the same 

 boat still, just as when Noah led us into 

 the ark together, two by two, and we 

 may all reach the same old Ararat again 

 some day, and pass out side by side. 



I have spoken somewhat at divers 

 times in derogation of the animal called 

 man. I still insist that he is not the 

 God-like creature painted by himself. 

 He is no better, in my opinion, in most 

 particulars, than his fellows of the 

 earth and air and sea. He may be 



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