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cate rather than to exterminate, to enslave rather than 

 kill. Hence his protecting care over flocks of sheep, 

 herds of cattle, fish hatcheries; his friendship for dog 

 and cat; all of whom he will ward against the attacks 

 of other forms of life. Hence, too, his institution of 

 human slavery. Against the so-called pernicious forms 

 of lower life, i.e., those that militate against his survival, 

 he will indeed wage unrelenting warfare, calling into 

 that service the very instincts which the struggle for 

 existence has developed in the various inferior species 

 who serve him. Sometimes, as in the case of the 

 buffalo, he will be foolishly short-sighted, though not 

 without protest from the wiser and more far-sighted of 

 his race. But his subjugation of the wolves, the bears, 

 the lions and tigers, the rattlesnakes and cobras, and 

 all forms of life inimical to his welfare, is ever subject 

 to the general law of providing for his own survival. 

 He may indeed make serious mistakes at times, as when 

 his indiscriminate slaughter of bird life leads him to 

 destroy forms of life which are beneficial to him by 

 reason of their attacks on pernicious forms of lower 

 life. But in the end, his reason will prevail; and as he 

 comes to understand more clearly their relation to the 

 cardinal principle of his own survival, so will he extend 

 his protecting care over all the beneficent types of 

 lower life. 



Disease 



As man progresses in knowledge and intelligence 

 along the path of race infancy which, again, seems to 



