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 con- 

 tended hand to hand with the other animal 

 creation. He killed from necessity of securing 

 food. As he rose above his contestants, this 

 necessity became less urgent. He has now 



obtained dominion, but he is not yet fully eman- 

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