AND PERSONALITY 



grow old and weak or as they become emaciated or disabled 

 through infection or injury and find themselves unable to 

 make the attack or pursuit, even when the majestic lion finds 

 himself weakened by advancing years and by the fact that 

 his share of food eludes him, there is nothing left but a lonely, 

 wayside death, which is often hastened by the hyena. 



When we contemplate the parade of death in its every 

 form the attack with instant death, the chase to exhaus- 

 tion, starvation, hemorrhage, slow infection, disability, old 

 age the painless death in the midst of life as administered 

 by the cat family seems merciful. 



The simple minds of the wild animals seem to forget these 

 dramatic episodes and are at peace in the intervals. In the 

 case of man the opposite is true. The mind of man, being 

 the organ of struggle, continuously keeps the energy system 

 of man under the stress of fear, worry, and anxiety. The 

 significance of this difference between the simple-minded 

 wild animal and the profound-minded man is seen in the 

 diseases peculiar to civilized man. 



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