MA.N AND OTHER A N I M A "L S 



have been asked in various terms. The answer is, 

 I think, plain. 



Many animals are born to suffer what would be 

 excruciating pain to human beings, through all 

 their lives, simply because they are animals of a 

 certain species. Take, for instance, the common 

 dor beetle. 



This is a mail-clad insect so strongly armored 

 that it cannot by any means touch the joints of 

 its body or the upper joints of its strong limbs. 

 Consequently we find that parasitic mites bear- 

 ing about the same relation in size to the beetle 

 as rats would bear to a man cluster and multi- 

 ply at these joints, sucking the living juices of 

 the beetle's tissues. 



The beetle can do nothing at all to help itself, 

 simply because it is born to be a certain kind of 

 beetle. Its troubles are part of its existence. It 

 is the natural vehicle and provender of a certain 

 kind of mite. 



We cannot, therefore, suppose otherwise than 

 that the dor beetle comes into the world with 

 feelings adapted to the circumstances awaiting 

 it. Although laden with a gang of blood-sucking 

 parasites, it will go through life, feeding, multi- 

 plying, and providing for its young with com- 

 plete apathy. 



In the same way man, as an animal i.e., in a 

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