In Wildest Africa ^ 



thcni as it is to hack off without any trouble the antlers 

 or horns of some wild animal that one has shot. 



Paintings, true to life, from the hands of artists, photo- 

 graphs taken directly from life, and finally these groups 

 awakened, as it were, to a new life, are the means that can, 

 and should, exert an educating and informing influence, so 

 that all the beauty of this department of created nature may 

 not be accessible only to a few learned men, ])ut be open to 

 all in general. If to an ever increasing degree this object 

 finds support in influential circles, we shall thus obtain 

 what must be somehow obtained. In the presence of the 

 progress of industry and civilisation no one can indeed 

 permanently prevent by protective measures the disappear- 

 ance of certain species, even though we may hope to still 

 delay the process of extinction by suitable regulations. But 

 on this ground the duty that I have already indicated 

 becomes more clearly imperative upon us. Its fulfilment 

 cannot fail to be rewarded, in the case of all who take part 

 in it, by the only true satisfaction that is given to mortals, 

 the feeling of having done all that was in any way in our 

 power to do. 



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