MAN AND OTHER ANIMALS 



no pain: only a fierce feeling of anger against 

 the brute. This is because, in fighting lions, man, 

 as a hunting animal, is in his ancestral place, and 

 is temporarily dominated by instinct only. 



Man amid the surroundings of civilization is a ^^ 

 different creature. He is no longer one of a tfj^ ^ 

 species, born to fight through life and to die #<*&> ^ 

 fighting. He is an individual, with a high sense of "/utt*^ ? 

 his personal destiny and of the value of comfort ^^^ t 

 and health. He has, as an individual, the oppor- ! -&Jl_ 

 tunity to avoid that which is dangerous and pain- ** 

 ful, and to choose that which is safe and pleasant. 

 He has to choose also between right and wrong at 

 every turn. He hates trouble and loathes pain. 

 In his heart he detests wrong and wickedness. He //%* 

 is, in a word, self-conscious. 



This is the reason why we may assume that 



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other animals are spared the consciousness of 

 pain which is such a condition of our life; be- 

 cause the extent of human self-consciousness is 

 so manifestly the measure by which we can gauge 

 the distance that civilized man has risen above 

 the animal level. 



Another great truth to remember is that, as a 

 hunting animal, man was the enemy of almost 

 everything that breathed: as a conscious person 

 he becomes more and more the friend of every 

 living thing. This is the working of God in him. 

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Wtttoia ^ . ' 



