Race for Life 



Race for Life 



"And God blessed them" i.e., the animals, *^ saying: 

 Be fruitful and multiply. . . . And God blessed them, i.e., 

 man, male and female, and said unto them: Be fruitful, 

 and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; 

 and have dominion over the 'fish of the sea, and over the 

 fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth 

 upon the earth." Here are the conditions of the 

 struggle appositely set. The voice of God, speaking 

 through the imperious, universal instinct implanted in 

 every form of life, urges toward increase of species. 

 If the lower animals increase beyond their due propor- 

 tion, man will be swept ojBF the earth. If, on the other 

 hand, man increase beyond his due proportion, they 

 in their turn will be exterminated. Man is saved not 

 alone by his ever-increasing intelligence, but by the 

 internecine strife prevalent from the beginning amongst 

 the lower animals themselves. They feed upon, they 

 attempt to exterminate each other. It is the law of the 

 jungle, wherein the strong preys upon the weak, a law 

 which leads to the survival of the healthier, stronger, 

 more beautiful types. 



Man's Triumph 



Man, too, is forced by the conditions of his lot to 

 participate in this strife, both against the lower animals 

 and against his own kind ; but his dawning intelligence 

 soon leads him to see that in certain cases, at least, it 

 will better suit the purpose of his survival to domesti- 



