THE NEW HUNTING 



THE world is full of animals and plants. Every 

 animal and plant has the power to multiply itself 

 many fold. Every one contends for an opportunity 

 to live. 



This contention forces the individual to live for 

 itself. Self-preservation, it is said, is the first law 

 of nature. The animal appropriates food, usurps 

 territory, kills and even devours its contestants. 

 It kills because it must. It is goaded by the whip 

 of necessity. To live is the highest desire that it 

 knows. Its acts need no justification. 



Man also is an animal. He has come up from 

 the world-fauna. On his way he contended hand 

 to hand with the other animal creation. He killed 

 from necessity of obtaining food. As he arose 

 above his contestants, this necessity became less 

 urgent. He has now obtained dominion, but he is 

 not yet fully emancipated from the necessity of 

 taking life. Perhaps complete emancipation will 

 come. 



The old desire to kill first born of necessity 

 still lingers. But now we kill also for "sport." 

 Practically a new motive has been born into the 

 world with man the desire to kill for the sake of 

 killing. One generation of white men is sufficient 

 practically to exterminate the bison and several 



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