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forbidding the grosser exercises of the hunting 

 and killing instincts. And more such laws may be 

 expected just as fast as men grow more enlight- 

 ened. The slower footed members of a commun- 

 ity are thus kept in check by the more enlightened 

 members. So-called " trap-shooting, ' ' which con- 

 sists in the massacre of birds thrown from a trap, 

 is now forbidden by law in the more advanced 

 states. One of the things that is going to brand 

 us as barbarians, in the eyes of the future, is the 

 indifference we show toward hunting for pleasure. 

 Any one who wants to do so can arm himself and 

 go out into the fields and shoot down birds and 

 other inoffensive creatures, merely to satisfy this 

 old savage instinct, and there is only an occasional 

 feeble protest against it. Hunting for pastime is 

 nothing but murder. And it should be forbidden 

 by strict laws. 



As time passes, the instinct of sympathy and 

 humanity will grow stronger, and will become 

 more and more dominant in human nature, and 

 the vestigial savage instincts will grow corre- 

 spondingly feebler. The hunter, who kills for 

 pastime, is a connecting link between the savage, 

 who hunts for a living, and the civilized man, who 

 does not hunt at all. The hunter, like the warrior, 

 will finally pass away forever. 



10. The Tribal Instinct. 



Savages live in tribes. The prevailing relation 

 of one tribe to another is that of war. The moral 



