CHAPTER I 



MAN AND OTHER ANIMALS 



"A Freethinker's" Challenge Cruelty of Nature The 

 Human Point of View Man's Unconsciousness in 

 Peril Hypnotic Unconsciousness Parallel of the 

 Telegraph Office Flagellants and Devotees Meaning 

 of " Sensation "Why Animals are Spared Pain- 

 Man as a Hunting Animal Man as a Person. 



I N the following pages I hope to bring home to 

 all readers the truth of the views which have 

 brought comfort and complete satisfaction to 

 myself. 



For more than a score of years the problem of 

 the apparent cruelty of the world was daily in 

 my mind. Nature in almost all its details seemed 

 to undermine the very basis of religion ; but , . - . 

 gradually I came to see the very truth, and now \Akfajt, 4*4 

 find nature to be the bed-rock of true religion, 

 insomuch that the future of the human soul itself ^ , T/ "/ v 

 as taught by religion is only the crown of -**? ^kf - 

 natural evolution. 



I should probably not, however, have ventured 

 to put my views in detail into print, but for an 

 accident. 



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